(Developing: Will be updated)
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. citizens and nationals regardless of their residence.
"The central problem here is that there are United States citizens and nationals . . .
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