{"id":317943,"date":"2026-08-10T18:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317943\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T18:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:26:12","slug":"doj-sues-new-york-connecticut-and-vermont-over-granting-illegal-immigrants-in-state-college-tuition-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317943\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ sues New York, Connecticut and Vermont over granting illegal immigrants in-state college tuition rate"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 The Department of Justice is suing three blue states to challenge laws that let non-citizens benefit from college tuition rates offered to\u00a0in-state\u00a0residents<\/a> and other financial assistance.<\/p>\n

The lawsuits against New York, Connecticut and Vermont alleged that state laws unconstitutionally discriminate against American citizens who don\u2019t receive reduced fees, scholarships or other financial benefits.<\/p>\n

Each state is accused of violating the Constitution\u2019s Supremacy Clause in letting illegal aliens remain eligible for post-secondary education benefits that aren\u2019t provided to US citizens of other states.<\/p>\n

The CUNY City College graduation takes place in Manhattan, New York, on Friday, June 3, 2022. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n

In Connecticut, those laws have been on the books for more than a decade. New York and Vermont have had similar legislation for several years.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongress long ago made clear that States cannot put illegal aliens over our nation\u2019s own citizens,\u201d said Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy granting illegal aliens in-state tuition, New York, Vermont, and Connecticut are doing just that. No more,\u201d Woodward added.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs of today, we have now sued every state in the Second Circuit that seeks to thwart Congress\u2019s clear prohibition by placing alien over citizen. And our efforts will not cease until President Trump\u2019s promise is fulfilled: illegal aliens will not receive benefits denied to our Nation\u2019s own citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Department of Justice is suing three blue states to challenge laws that let non-citizens benefit from college tuition rates offered to\u00a0in-state\u00a0residents and other financial assistance. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n

The CUNY City College graduation takes place in Manhattan, New York, on June 3, 2022. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n

At least 14 states with similar laws \u2014 including New Jersey, Minnesota and California \u2014 have already been sued by President Trump\u2019s DOJ.<\/p>\n

At least five states \u2014 Texas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Illinois \u2014 have been barred from providing the reduced tuition rate for illegal aliens.<\/p>\n

In July, the New Orleans-based Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Texas federal judge\u2019s ruling that enjoined the Lone Star State from offering illegal immigrants<\/a> studying at public universities the in-state rate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a simple matter of federal law: colleges cannot provide benefits to illegal aliens that they do not provide to U.S. citizens,\u201d added Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Division. \u201cThis Department of Justice will not tolerate American students being treated like second-class citizens in their own country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reps for the governors of New York, Connecticut and Vermont did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 The Department of Justice is suing three blue states to challenge laws that let non-citizens benefit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[39235,2222,3410,2301,1082,9,11,10,49,51,50,87,58,1634],"class_list":["post-317943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-college-tuition","tag-connecticut","tag-illegal-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-justice-department","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-politics","tag-us-news","tag-vermont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}