The Trump administration sued D.C. and three states last week to try to invalidate their policies allowing in-state tuition for undocumented college students. It was a lamentable milestone: Since President Donald Trump returned to office last year, his administration has now sued every jurisdiction that offered such assistance.
This is part of a broader campaign against “dreamers,” the young immigrants who were brought into the United States illegally as children. Many remember no other country as home. College degrees are particularly important for this cohort: They can lead to jobs at businesses willing to sponsor the necessary paperwork for them to come out of the shadows.
Taking away in-state tuition rates, however, risks crushing that dream by making higher education unaffordable. In Utah, one of the states sued by the administration last week, the flagship University of Utah charges nonresident students $32,932, more than triple the rate for residents.
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