US Justice Department challenges 4 more states over in-state tuition for immigrants

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The Justice Department sued Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington on Thursday over state laws letting immigrants without legal status pay in-state tuition, bringing the administration's total to 21 states sued over such policies. Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward Jr. framed it as citizens being 'pushed to the side,' the sort of language that tends to arrive when the actual dispute is about how many states get to keep policies the administration dislikes.

Courts have already struck down the challenged laws in five states — Texas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Illinois — though Illinois was the only one of those to actually defend itself in court rather than concede. Lawsuits remain pending in a dozen more states including California, New York and Massachusetts.

Supporters of the tuition policies maintain they grant no advantage unavailable to other students in their home states, a distinction the lawsuits do not appear especially interested in.

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Winning five lawsuits against states that mostly didn't show up to defend themselves is not the same as winning an argument, but it makes for a tidy count to cite in a press release. Twenty-one lawsuits in pursuit of slightly higher tuition bills for a small number of students is a strange hill to plant a flag on, unless the hill was always about optics rather than dollars.

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