California’s Top Court Upholds Undocumented Immigrant Tuition Policy

Posted on Nov 15, 2010

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This here is the Earl Warren Building and Courthouse at San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza, which houses the California Supreme Court. That is all.

Even the California Supreme Court’s conservative contingent agreed Monday to uphold a ruling that gives undocumented immigrants a chance to partake in in-state tuition rates at participating institutions of higher learning. In fact, the decision was unanimous.  —KA

Los Angeles Times:

In a ruling written by Justice Ming W. Chin, one of the panel’s more conservative members, the state high court said a California law that guarantees the lower tuition for students who attend California high schools for at least three years and graduate does not conflict with a federal prohibition on giving illegal immigrants educational benefits based on residency.

California is one of several states that permit illegal immigrants to take advantage of lower college tuition for students who attend high school and graduate in state. About 25,000 illegal immigrants are estimated to receive in-state tuition rates in California.

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