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The U.S. Department of Justice sued the state of Oklahoma Tuesday over a state law that allows undocumented students to pay in-state tuition rates. Oklahoma is now the fourth state the DOJ has sued for having such a policy.<\/p>\n
The state\u2019s Republican attorney general, Gentner Drummond, swiftly sided with the federal government and filed a joint motion in support of quashing the law. He said in a statement that it\u2019s \u201cdiscriminatory and unlawful\u201d to offer noncitizens lower in-state tuition rates \u201cthat are not made available to out-of-state Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cToday marks the end of a longstanding exploitation of Oklahoma taxpayers, who for many years have subsidized colleges and universities as they provide unlawful benefits to illegal immigrants in the form of in-state tuition,\u201d Drummond said.<\/p>\n
Now the state and the DOJ await a ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n
Oklahoma\u2019s quick support for the legal challenge is reminiscent of what happened in Texas when the DOJ sued the state in June: Within hours of the lawsuit, Texas sided with the Justice Department and a judge ruled in favor of a permanent injunction, ending in-state tuition for noncitizens. The DOJ then filed similar lawsuits against Kentucky and Minnesota, though those legal fights are still ongoing.<\/p>\n
The lawsuits follow an executive order issued by President Donald Trump in April calling for a crackdown on so-called sanctuary cities and state laws unlawfully \u201cfavoring aliens over any groups of American citizens,\u201d citing in-state tuition benefits for noncitizens as an example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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