McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) -- A couple of South Texas lawmakers on Thursday were speaking out against the state of Texas for ending in-state tuition for non-citizen students.

In a call with reporters, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, said he opposes Gov. Greg Abbott's administration ending in-state tuition for "Dreamers," which began when he was Texas secretary of state in 2001 under the Perry administration.

“We didn’t want to have second-class students, 'Dreamers,' that couldn’t go to college because they had to pay out-of-state. So it was to help the 'Dreamers' that we have in Texas. And I think over 24,000 'Dreamers,' have taken advantage of this. It’s wrong what they did," said Cuellar, whose district includes several South Texas counties that border Mexico.

On Thursday, the J

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