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UPDATED: Federal judge blocks Kansas from enforcing in-state tuition law

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(Updated to include comments from the Kansas attorney general and the ACLU as well as the U.S. attorney for Kansas and the governor)

A federal judge has permanently blocked Kansas from enforcing a 2004 state law that provides in-state tuition at higher education institutions for students who don’t live in the country legally.

U.S. District Judge Holly Teeter ruled on Wednesday that state law is pre-empted by federal statutes because it confers a postsecondary education benefit on an unlawfully present alien based on a state residency without making the same benefit available to U.S . . .

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