A group of undocumented students on Wednesday asked a judge to let them intervene in a case that revoked their access to in-state tuition, the first step in their ultimate goal of overturning the ruling.
The filing comes a week after the U.S. Department of Justice sued Texas over its 24-year-old law that allowed undocumented Texans who had lived in the state for three years and graduated from a Texas high school to qualify for lower tuition rates at public universities. Texas quickly agreed with the Trump administration’s claim that the law was unconstitutional and asked a judge to find the law unenforceable.
Anyone who thinks undocumented immigrants don’t deserve in-state tuition in Texas is a racist bigot. That sounds extreme, but that’s really what it comes down to - a fundamental belief that immigrants are not full human beings. There is no motive accept for racial animus behind this. There is no reasonable position to oppose giving them in-state tuition.
Why? BECAUSE TEXAS HAS NO INCOME TAX.
Texas is funded entirely by sales tax, property tax, and various fees. Someone living in Texas illegally pays all the same taxes as someone in the country legally.
Texas is happy to exploit immigrant labor. But they want to be able to use people and then throw them in the landfill when they’re done with them. Typical conservatives.