After Texas deal, Trump seeks to widen ban on in-state tuition for noncitizens

HOUSTON — Tens of thousands of undocumented students at public universities and community colleges in Texas are facing uncertainty and astronomically higher bills this fall after the Trump administration and state officials struck a deal to deny them in-state tuition.

The Justice Department is similarly seeking to end tuition breaks in several other states for students who are residents there but do not have legal status.

Texas had long extended the discounted rates to undocumented students living within its borders. The first-in-the-country measure, passed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support, endured even as the state’s leadership turned deeply red.

“If you say that we should not educate children who come into our state for no other reason than that they’ve been brought there through no fault of their own, I don’t think you have a heart,” declared Rick Perry, then Texas’s governor and a presidential candidate, a decade after signing the Texas Dream Act into law.

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