Austin, Texas (AP)-Federal Judge on Wednesday has blocked a Texas law, which has been providing students with no legal residences for reduced education in the country for decades, is rapidly governed in favor of the latest efforts of the Trump administration to disintegrate into immigration.
The order came only hours after the Ministry of Justice filed a case to block the training policy that was the first of its kind in the United States when it began in Texas in 2001, instead of fighting a case filed against Texas, the State Prosecutor Ken Paxon quickly told the Room. Damage.
The result was a court that sharply blocks Texas law that some conservatives seek to cancel years.
The judge’s decision stated that the Texas Act attached to someone “is not legally present in the United States …. (is) non -constitutional and invalid.”
The order applies only to Texas, but may encourage conservatives to challenge such laws in two dozens of states.
“The termination of this discriminatory and non -American provision is a major victory for Texas,” Paxon said.
The Texas Act was intended to help “dreamers” or young adults without a law of legislation, to be entitled to public education if they meet certain criteria for residence.
Half of the country now has similar laws, but the Trump administration has brought a lawsuit in the Conservative Texas, where Paxon, Republican governor Greg Abbot, and state deputies have long been striving to support the firm goals of the President of the border.
The lawsuit and decisions also come just two days after the end of the state legislative session, during which it is considered to be annulled of the bill driven by a group of Republicans, but in the end did not appear for vote.
The lawsuit bent strongly in the recent enforcement orders signed by Trump intended to stop any country or local laws or provisions that the administration is discriminating against the legal residents.
“According to federal law, schools cannot provide benefits for illegal aliens that do not provide US citizens,” said US Prosecutor General Pam Bondi. “The Ministry of Justice will mercilessly struggle to avenge the federal law and ensure that US citizens are not treated as second -class citizens everywhere in the country.”
Texas has about 57,000 undocumented students enrolled in their public universities and colleges, according to the Union of Presidents for Higher Education and Immigration, a non -party non -profit group of university leaders focused on immigration policy. The state has about 690,000 students as a whole at its public universities.
“State training for illegal immigrants in Texas is over,” Abbott published in a short statement about X.
The lawsuit was filed in the Witca Waterfall in the North District of Texas, where Paxon and conservative litigation often challenges the federal government and issues such as health and gay and transgender rights.
Texas training policy was originally adopted by removing the majority in the state legislative body and signed in the law by the then city. Rick Perry, a Republican, as a way of opening access to higher education for students without legal residence, which already lives in the country. The supporters then say that it strengthens the economy of the state by creating a better educated and better prepared workforce.
“The target attacks on Texas students who are looking for an affordable college education, led by the Trump administration, will not help anyone, they only hurt us,” says Luis Figueroa of every Texatian, leftist public policy group.
The difference in the degree of training is significant. For example, at the leading University of Texas in Austin, a state resident paid about $ 11,000 for the 2024-2025 school year compared to about $ 41,000 for students outside Texas. Other costs for homes, supplies and transportation can add nearly $ 20,000 more, according to school grades.
The law has allowed students without a law on legitimate residence to qualify for public education if they have lived in the state for three years before graduating from high school and for a year before enrolling in college. They also need to sign a declaration promising to apply for the status of legitimate residence as soon as possible.
But politics soon fell under fire, as the debate on illegal immigration intensified and critics called it unfairly as legal residents. In the Republican president of 2012, Perry eventually apologized after saying that critics of the law “have no heart”.
The legislative efforts to annul the Texas Law have repeatedly failed, but began to gain grip elsewhere. Florida Governor Ron Ron Zanthis, a Republican, signed a bill this year, which will cancel the State Law in the State in July.
“The termination of the teaching policy within the Texas is a direct attack on the educational aspirations of thousands of students who have grown up in our communities and call the House of Texas,” says Judith Cruz, Assistant Director of the Houston region for the Mounts in the Texas, which is advocated for the admission of education.