"Immigrant students and their advocates are working to reopen federal lawsuits that ended in-state tuition benefits for undocumented students in two states and another state where the same outcome seems imminent. Advocates say the judges ruled in favor of the government without a public hearing and the affected students weren't given the opportunity to defend the policies. Since the summer, the U.S. Department of Justice challenged in-state tuition policies in Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, Oklahoma"
"In Texas and Oklahoma, attorneys general quickly sided with the DOJ and judges swiftly ruled to end in-state tuition benefits for undocumented students. As a result, tuition tripled for some undocumented students this fall, forcing them to make difficult choices about whether they could afford to stay enrolled. Kentucky's undocumented students could soon face the same dilemma. The Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education agreed to end in-state tuition benefits for local undocumented students in a settlement filed in September,"
Since the summer, the U.S. Department of Justice has challenged state policies that extend in-state tuition to undocumented students in Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, Oklahoma and Texas, arguing those state laws breach federal law. In Texas and Oklahoma, attorneys general sided with the DOJ and judges swiftly ended in-state tuition benefits, causing tuition to triple for some undocumented students this fall and forcing difficult enrollment decisions. Civil rights groups and students have filed motions to intervene in the lawsuits to reopen quickly closed cases and defend the policies. Kentucky's Council on Postsecondary Education agreed to end benefits in a settlement; Minnesota and Illinois continue to defend theirs.
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