Tens of thousands of college students in the state of Texas might no longer qualify for in state tuition. This comes after a federal judge ruled against the Texas Dream Act, passed by the legislature in 2001.

The order comes from US District Court, the Northern District of Texas and it says the law in the Texas Education Code – passed by the legislature when Republican Rick Perry was governor – is unconstitutional, and effective immediately, undocumented students cannot receive in-state tuition at Texas’ public universities. It permanently enjoins the state from enforcing that law.

“It was a work around the Texas Legislature,” said Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, an immigration attorney in Austin. She says there was a bill to prevent undocumented immigrants from paying in-state tuition in the le

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