Suits Challenge State Reward of Tuition to Illegal Aliens

"Illegal immigrants living in nine states can now attend public college at in-state tuition costs. But legal U.S. citizens still have to pay out-of-state tuition at schools outside of their home state. That price difference can be tens of thousands of dollars . . . 'We'll be arguing it doesn't really matter if the U.S. citizens end up paying more or paying less but that they're being treated unequally,' said Kris Kobach, co-counsel in lawsuits against tuition laws in Kansas and California. Kobach added that a 1996 federal law guiding this issue is 'remarkably clear language for Congress — it makes it very clear you can't do this,'" Fox News reports. "'It is the key word here, 'illegal,' and it's also about not only the principle behind that, but the priorities -- in funding what the Kansas taxpayers want to fund,' Kansas state Rep. Becky Hutchins, who introduced a bill to overturn that state's 2004 law, recently told FOX News, adding that in 2005, 221 students were able to qualify for the price break, up from 37 in 2004."

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