WASHINGTON, D.C. (KSWO) – The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced it is filing a complaint challenging an Oklahoma law that offers in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants.
The DOJ claims the law unconstitutionally discriminates against U.S. citizens “who are not afforded the same privileges.”
Government officials say the complaint was filed on August 5, which follows a motion from Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond.
The complaint aligns with recent federal laws, as outlined in recent executive orders, according to the DOJ.
The department cites the broader “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders” which the current administration says is to “ensure, to the maximum extent permitted by law, that no taxpayer-funded benefits go to unqualified aliens.” Specifically, regarding higher education, the DOJ cites, “Protecting American Communities From Criminal Aliens,” with the intent to “take appropriate action to stop the enforcement of State and local laws, regulations, policies, and practices favoring aliens over any groups of American citizens that are unlawful, preempted by Federal law, or otherwise unenforceable, including State laws that provide in-State higher education tuition to aliens but not to out-of-State American citizens.”
The complaint filed to the DOJ Eastern District of Oklahoma states the law “blatantly” conflicts with the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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