The U.S. Department of Justice sued three states\u2014Connecticut, New York and Vermont\u2014over their policies allowing undocumented students to pay in-state tuition, the Trump administration announced Monday.<\/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 Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Division said in a news release<\/a>. \u201cThis Department of Justice will not tolerate American students being treated like second-class citizens in their own country.\u201d<\/p>\n The federal government has now filed 17 lawsuits against states that hold such policies. Some states, such as Nebraska<\/a>, Oklahoma<\/a> and Texas<\/a>, swiftly sided with the federal government and ended their in-state tuition policies, while others continue to fight the lawsuits. Minnesota won its case this spring, though the DOJ has since appealed<\/a> the decision. A federal judge recently decided in favor<\/a> of the DOJ in Illinois.<\/p>\n Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said in the release that the DOJ has now sued \u201cevery state in the [U.S. Court of Appeals for the] Second Circuit that seeks to thwart Congress\u2019s clear prohibition by placing alien over citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOur 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 he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Department of Justice sued three states\u2014Connecticut, New York and Vermont\u2014over their policies allowing undocumented students to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10069,67,4619,20272,3415,9,11,10,49,51,50,12],"class_list":["post-318612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-career","tag-education","tag-events","tag-higher","tag-jobs","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-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318612","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=318612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}