With one dissenting vote, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals denied students’ request to intervene in a case that ended enforcement of the Texas Dream Act, upholding the decision to bar thousands of non-U.S. citizens residing in Texas from in-state tuition benefits.<\/p>\n
In June 2025, the United States sued Texas over its 24-year-old Dream Act, which provided students without legal documentation access to in-state tuition if they graduate from a Texas high school, have lived in the state for at least three years, and sign an affidavit stating their intent to pursue citizenship at the first opportunity.<\/p>\n
The U.S. argued that the law violated federal law that bars special benefits for non-U.S. citizens, and Texas declined to fight the suit. Within hours, a district judge ruled students without legal presence could not access in-state tuition.<\/p>\n
Exactly a year later, Austin Community College, a student group and the nonprofit La Union Del Pueblo Entero argued before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans that a judge should let them represent students impacted in Texas\u2019 place and restore the Dream Act.<\/p>\n
The appeals court ruled 2-1 that they could not intervene because federal law successfully blocks the Dream Act, according to the decision filed Thursday.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With one dissenting vote, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals denied students’ request to intervene in a case…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-367414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}