ISSUES
Posted: September 04, 2025
Modified: September 05, 2025 
Since coming into office, the Trump administration has increasingly targeted undocumented students and the colleges and universities seeking to enroll and support them. This includes efforts to roll back in-state tuition access and scholarships for undocumented students, including filing lawsuits against states with such laws, restricting eligibility to adult education and career and technical education (CTE) classes, and opening federal civil rights investigations into institutions that offer scholarships to DACA recipients and undocumented students. In response to these developments, this issue brief explains the legal and policy foundations that allow states to offer in-state tuition rates to undocumented students and certain scholarship opportunities.
Download the issue brief.
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