No More In-State Tuition Discounts for Kentucky Illegal Aliens
Illegal immigrants will no longer obtain the benefit of lower tuition fees in Kentucky after a trial of the Attorney General Pam Bondi led to a regulation to put an end to the practice.
Kentucky’s prosecutor General Russell Coleman told Fox News Digital of the agreement between the federal government and Commonwealth educators in an interview on Thursday.
Coleman told the media that Kentucky Council on PostSecondary Education (KCPE) had agreed to modify state policy two months after the Ministry of Justice has filed a complaint, alleging that the practice of school fees of Kentucky violated the federal law.
“Under the current federal law, any illegal immigrant is prohibited from the eligibility for post -secondary training benefits, such as state tuition fees, unless the same advantages are offered to all American citizens,” said Coleman.
“No state can be authorized to treat Americans as second -class citizens in their own country by offering financial advantages to illegal foreigners,” said Prosecutor General Pamela Bondi when the prosecution was filed in June.
The trial was built on a successful pursuit against Texas educators concerning a practice of similar tuition fees favorable to illegal foreigners, according to the Ministry of Justice.
Coleman said that initial policy has prompted the non-citizens to come to Kentucky on other states that have not offered the statements in the state.
Coleman said that the decision is not official as long as the district judge signs the agreement between the parties, although he said that it was generally a formality.
The Commonwealth Attorney General said the KCPE had to offer tuition fees in the basis of Kentucky administrative regulations.
“I applaud the fact that (KCPE) did the right thing and followed the law,” he told Fox Digital. “But he took the Ministry of Justice and all his legal lever effect and the head of the state forces by biding legality before doing the right thing. It’s disappointing. “
The agreement, if he was signed by a judge, would point out the end of the attempt at an organization of Latin American civil rights to end the service in the state.
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (Maldef) recently filed a request which argued that the federal government did not have the constitutional right to end local practice.
Maldef’s request said that if the regulations were canceled, the tuition fees of the students concerned could increase up to 152%, some of $ 446 to $ 897 per hour of semester credit.
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