NY Times: “A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday blocked a two decade-old law offering undocumented residents the same discounted tuition as other in-state college students, after the Trump administration and the Texas attorney general joined together to argue the measure violated federal law.
The one-page order, signed by Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas, came just hours after the federal government filed suit challenging the Texas law. Soon after, Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas said he would not oppose the lawsuit. Instead, his office filed a joint motion with the Justice Department asking the judge to permanently block the law.
With the parties in agreement, Judge O’Connor, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, quickly did so, signing the order that declared the law “invalid.”
“In-state tuition for illegal immigrants in Texas has ended,” Gov. Greg Abbott declared in a social media post late Wednesday.”