Arizona Supreme Court Unanimously Agrees To Prohibit In-State Tuition For ‘Dreamers’

Pack up and move to California.

Via Daily Caller:

Illegal immigrants in Arizona who are covered under the hotly discussed Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program can no longer receive in-state tuition, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Monday.

Justices on the court unanimously agreed with the Arizona Court of Appeals’ ruling in June 2017 arguing that existing federal and state laws do not permit the Maricopa Community Colleges to grant in-state tuition rates for so-called DACA recipients.

More than 2,000 DACA recipients, or “dreamers,” who attend Arizona colleges and universities pay in-state rates. The decision could dramatically increase the tuition costs students in the country illegally will have to pay. Out-of-state rates are about triple the cost of in-state tuition.

Rates are substantially less than what non-resident students pay. In-state rates for students attending Arizona State University, for instance, is $10,640 this year while the rate for those from out-of-state is $26,470. There are nearly 28,000 dreamers residing in Arizona.

Arizona’s state appellate court’s 2017 ruling overturned a lower court judge’s 2015 decision that “dreamers” should be legally present in the U.S. The DACA program, which former President Barack Obama signed in 2012, did not confer legal status to young illegal immigrants, presiding Judge Kenton Jones wrote.

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