Weird how Texas had a law, for decades, that allowed illegal aliens to attend Texas universities with in-state tuition, as if they were legal citizens of Texas until about five minutes ago.
And this is all it took to change.
The Trump DoJ launched a lawsuit against the state of Texas for being fake conservatives and fake Republicans and giving benefits to illegal aliens.
And then minutes later Texas folded like a cheap suit.
Texas has scrapped a law enabling undocumented students to pay in-state college tuition after the Justice Department objected to the law and state officials agreed.
The decision came just hours after the Trump administration sued to overturn the decades-old Texas law.
I think the real story here is that Texas Republicans, as it is essentially a Republican controlled state and has been for years, allowed this law to stand for as long as possible until President Trump pointed out the insanity and hypocrisy.
Maybe because this is the stereotypical Texas Republican:
To be fair to Bush, this bill passed in 2001 and was signed into law by Rick Perry as the - I kid you not - "Texas Dream Act."
Yes, Republicans pushed "dreamers" before Obama was even on the political radar. Just so you know how far Trump has taken the party in terms of border enforcement.
Greg Abbott, who has had the power to do this for years, announced last night under threat of lawsuit from the Department of Justice, that he has ended this Texas policy.
This about sums it up.
Abbott has done some really good things in Texas, no doubt, but this shows the deep rot that consumes the Lone Star state's GOP.
For his part, Texas AG Ken Paxton was right on this from the beginning.
'Under federal law, schools cannot provide benefits to illegal aliens that they do not provide to U.S. citizens,' Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. 'The Justice Department will relentlessly fight to vindicate federal law and ensure that U.S. citizens are not treated like second-class citizens anywhere in the country.'
Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a joint motion with the DOJ to rule that the law was unconstitutional.
Ken Paxton had to team with the feds to get Texas to abide by federal law.
Don't mess with Texas? Texas is already a mess!
All's well that ends well. Texas has gotten rid of in-state tuition for illegals and, thanks to President Trump, restored common sense on this issue.
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