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Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a challenge complaint Minnesota law This provides freedom and reduced in-state tuition for illegal foreigners, claiming that the law is unconstitutional.
Under federal law, higher education institutions are prohibited from providing benefits to illegal foreigners who have not provided to U.S. citizens.
According to the Justice Department, Minnesota’s laws discriminate against U.S. citizens unconstitutionally and conflict directly with federal laws.
“No state can treat second-class citizens of their own country by providing financial benefits to illegal foreigners,” he said. Attorney General Pam Bundy explain. “The Justice Department just won this exact issue in Texas and we look forward to bringing this fight to Minnesota to protect the rights of American citizens first.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department are prosecuting Minnesota to allow illegal immigrants to gain freedom or reduce in-state tuition, which is not for all U.S. citizens. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
By filing a lawsuit, the Justice Department asked Minnesota to stop enforcing a law requiring public universities and universities to provide in-state tuition and free tuition based on certain income conditions to immigrants in countries that illegally maintain their residency under certain income environments.
Federal law prohibits higher education facilities from providing educational benefits to illegal immigrants who do not provide them to U.S. citizens.
The lawsuit comes weeks after the Justice Department took similar interests against illegal immigrants who took similar interests in Texas.
On Monday, February 12, 2024, the sun shines on the Minnesota Capitol. After a key meeting in 2023, lawmakers have a relatively small agenda, a ambitious list of Democrats using a newly discovered state of overall control to develop their priorities. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)
Both lawsuits have been filed against two executive orders signed by the president. Donald Trump Since returning to the Oval Office in January.
Sign an executive order to ensure that illegal immigrants do not receive taxpayer benefits or preferential treatment.
One of the orders is “end taxpayer subsidies to open borders”, which orders all agencies to “make sure to ensure that no taxpayer-funded benefits are provided to unqualified foreigners to the maximum extent permitted by law.”
Another order “protecting the American community from criminal aliens” directs officials to take appropriate action to prevent the enforcement of state and local laws, regulations, policies, policies and customs, preference for foreigners rather than illegal U.S. citizens, by federal law or other state laws that cannot be imposed, including national laws that are educated at home, including citizens of aliens, but it is impossible to provide an alien citizenship to aliens, rather than an alien attack.
Eventually, Texas complied with the Department of Justice and stopped enforcing Texas Dream Methodoriginally launched in February 2001.
The legislation was signed by Republican Gov. Rick Perry, and on June 16, 2001, removed federal immigration status, a factor that determines that students eligible for paying in-state tuition at Texas public universities and colleges who graduated from a Texas high school and meet minimum standards for residence, academic and registration.
Although the state immediately ceased law enforcement, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has since intervened.
On Tuesday, the Texas Civil Liberties Union joined the Texas Civil Rights Program and the Democratic Forward organization filed a motion to step in the lawsuit to defend the constitutionality of the Texas Dream Act against the Department of Justice.
The ACLU said the Justice Department order was agreed by Texas, without proper processes and created “complete uncertainty” for students and universities.
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“When students prepare to attend school in the fall, the failure of the Justice Department and the Attorney General’s defense of the Texas Dream Act threatens their ability to afford tuition and suddenly threatens their dreams to pursue higher education,” the ACLU said in a press release. “By intervening, these groups and individuals hope to challenge this abuse litigation strategy and defend the Texas Dream Act, which enables a generation of Texans to develop their careers and become leaders in our community.”
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