The Department of Justice sued the State of Minnesota, Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison over a state program that allows some undocumented immigrants access to free and in-state college tuition costs.
Minnesota’s North Star Promise violates federal law by offering in-state tuition prices to undocumented students, but not U.S. citizen students from other states.
“No state can be allowed to treat Americans like second-class citizens in their own country by offering financial benefits to illegal aliens,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi, in a release. “The Department of Justice just won on this exact issue in Texas, and we look forward to taking this fight to Minnesota in order to protect the rights of American citizens first.”
Can you imagine we would come to this? We have to pay for illegal aliens to go to college and our own children based on their socialist progressive income ladder. The out-of-state tuitions are very high and our children can’t get the rate people here illegally get.
The federal government argues that established law prohibits providing postsecondary education benefits to “aliens that are not offered to U.S. citizens,” according to the release.
The North Star Promise, which was passed in 2023 and launched in the fall of 2024, provides state funding for tuition and college fees for students from families making less than $80,000 annually.
The amount of funding students receive is based on their remaining costs after all grants and scholarships have been awarded.
You qualify if you are a Minnesota resident. They don’t list citizenship as a requirement and specifically invite Dreamers.
“We are reviewing the lawsuit and will vigorously defend the state’s prerogative to offer affordable tuition to both citizen and non-citizen state residents,” said a spokesman for Attorney General Ellison.
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Get with the top-drawer stuff, Bondi.
Why is it that Democrats seem to be able to Judge shop, but not Republicans? .
Why is it that Democrats seem to be able to Judge shop, but not Republicans? WHY IS THIS COMMENT TRIGGERING ANYTHING????
Not at all, I can’t imagine why the filter picked it up.
I believe the filters are set up to put the hit on certain commenters, perhaps those who have posted strong conservative opinions. I do not think Ms Dowling would do such a thing, but perhaps one or more of her screeners are closet leftists.
Why is it that Democrats seem to be able to Judge shop, but not Republicans?
Likely because most Republican-appointed prosecutors are in fact RINOs who would rather see an Obongo or Bidumb ‘judge’ preside over cases brought to the courts by conservative citizens. When it is all boiled down, we conservatives have very few in Washington DC who would defend our rights and causes.
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One of the checkers got it within a minute! I’m not sure what I’m going to do next to stop this. It’s the captcha. If I drop it, I get constant spam.
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Why is it that Democrats seem to be able to Judge shop, but not Republicans?