Attention, all parents and college students worried about the ever-rising cost of college tuition. The Department of Justice has finally—after three decades—started enforcing the federal law that prohibits states from offering in-state tuition to illegal aliens unless they also offer in-state tuition to everyone else—including all citizen students from out of state.
The law they’re enforcing has existed since 1996, when Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act.
Buried inside that huge law was Section 505, codified at 8 U.S.C. § 1623, which prohibits state colleges and universities from providing in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens “on the basis of residence within the State” unless the same in-state rates are offered to all citizens of the United States.
In English, that means that states that offer in-state tuition to illegal aliens also have to offer in-state tuition to everyone. That means you!
Section 505 is still the law of the land—as we wrote back in 2011.
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Author: Dillon B
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