June 25, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice and Kansas officials swiftly reached an agreement to quash the state’s law allowing undocumented students to pay in-state tuition rates, just hours after the DOJ sued over the policy. The proposed consent decree still needs approval from the court to end the state law.
“Kansas’s unconstitutional and un-American laws should never have been passed in the first place and are prohibited by federal law,” Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Justice Department’s Civil Division said in a news release.
U.S. Attorney Ryan Kriegshauser for the District of Kansas said in the release that the agreement shows the “quality of partnership” between the state and the DOJ, “ensuring that federal tax dollars are not used to discriminate against Kansas’s lawful citizens.”
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