The Justice Department under Attorney General Todd Blanche announced four additional lawsuits were filed Thursday asking the courts to enjoin Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington from enforcing laws that require secondary learning institutions to offer in-state tuition benefits to certain noncitizens. Photo by Daniel Heuer/UPI | License Photo
Aug. 28 (UPI) -- The Justice Department is suing four more states over offering in-state tuition benefits to qualifying undocumented students, for a total of 21 lawsuits filed against so-called Dream Acts amid the Trump administration's anti-immigration push.
The lawsuits against Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington -- all Democratic-led -- were individually filed Thursday, alleging their laws providing undocumented students with in-state tuition and financial assistance unconstitutionally discriminate against out-of-state U.S. citizens to whom such benefits are not offered.
"By granting illegal aliens in-state tuition, Washington, Oregon, New Mexico and Arizona are pushing citizens to the side and ignoring federal law. No more," Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward Jr. said in a statement.
"Our efforts will not cease until President Trump's promise is fulfilled: illegal aliens will not receive benefits denied to American citizens."
