Trump administration sues Tim Walz over state’s agenda to subsidize illegals

The federal government is suing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz because his state has set up programs to subsidize, financially, the lives of illegal aliens.

Walz, a far-leftist who was Kamala Harris’ VP pick in the 2024 presidential campaign, contributing to her landslide loss, is known for his extremist positions on transgenderism, on abortion, on guns and on illegals.

A report at Courthousenews explains he and his state now are being sued because of “several” Minnesota laws “allowing immigrants to qualify for in-state tuition rates and financial aid.”

The complaint was filed in federal court in Minneapolis, and charges that Minnesota laws “explicitly classify aliens who are not lawfully present in the United States as residents under certain conditions, and thus eligible for reduced tuition and free tuition, respectively, for public state colleges while U.S. citizens from other states must pay higher out-of-state tuition rates and are ineligible for the free tuition.”

The charge continues, “This discriminatory treatment in favor of aliens not lawfully present in the United States over U.S. citizens is squarely prohibited and preempted by federal law, which provides that ‘an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible on the basis of residence within a State … for any postsecondary education benefit unless a citizen or national of the United States is eligible for such a benefit … without regard to whether the citizen or national is such a resident.’”

Minnesota, the complaint charges, is violating the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution with its agenda, so the court should declare Minnesota’s laws “preempted and permanently enjoin their enforcement.”

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Federal law “prohibits States from providing aliens not lawfully present in the United States with any postsecondary education benefit that is denied to U.S. citizens. That prohibition is categorical, yet Minnesota is flagrantly violating it. This Court should put an end to this unequal treatment of Americans that is an unequivocal and ongoing violation of federal law by entering a permanent injunction against the enforcement of Minnesota State laws that mandate the grant of unlawful state benefits to aliens not lawfully present in the United States,” the filing states.

The state’s financial aid program, to which it gives illegal aliens access, is called the North Star Promise.

The report noted President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders on the subject, “Ending taxpayer subsidization of open borders” and “Ending taxpayer subsidization of open borders,” and each of those instructs departments and agencies to see to it that no taxpayer-funded benefits go to “unqualified aliens.”

Leftist Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison also is being sued.

Minnesota simply provides recognition and privileges to illegal aliens if they meet several baseline qualifications, such as showing they’ve filed for lawful immigration status.

Attorney General Pam Bondi explained, “No state can be allowed to treat Americans like second-class citizens in their own country by offering financial benefits to illegal aliens. The Department of Justice just won on this exact issue in Texas, and we look forward to taking this fight to Minnesota in order to protect the rights of American citizens first.”

The report noted that instate fees and tuition for one University of Minnesota branch total about $17,000 a year, a scheduled applied to those illegal aliens. Out-of-state U.S. residents are charged more than $38,000.