Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, seen here as Kansas' secretary of state in 2016 with Donald Trump. entered a consent decree Wednesday to end his state's so-called Dream Act. Pool File Photo by Peter Foley/UPI | License Photo
June 25 (UPI) -- Kansas has joined the Trump administration in asking a court to end a decades-old policy that affords certain undocumented immigrants in-state tuition benefits, alleging it discriminates against Americans and is counter to federal law.
With the Wednesday lawsuit against Kansas, the Justice Department has filed complaints against 10 states asking the courts to invalidate laws often referred to as Dream Acts, which generally offer noncitizens who live in the state and have attended high school there for a number of years the same college tuition as citizens.
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, a Republican and longtime President Donald Trump ally, entered a consent decree with the Justice Department shortly after federal prosecutors filed their lawsuit that alleges House Bill 2145, which was signed into law in 2004, is "blatant unequal treatment favoring illegal aliens over United States citizens."
"This proposed consent decree demonstrates the quality of partnership between Kansas state leaders and the Department of Justice for the shared purpose of ensuring that federal tax dollars are not used to discriminate against Kansas' lawful citizens," U.S. Attorney Ryan Kriegshauser for the District of Kansas said in a statement.
