12 states allow illegal immigrants who receive tuition

California and 11 other countries were allowed to continue to give state college tuition to high school graduates who are under a new Supreme Court ruled illegal immigrants.

 

U.S. Supreme Court in Washington rejected a conservative group, called the fee an illegal subsidy "preferential treatment" of illegal immigrants and federal appeals of immigration law violations, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday.

 

The group pointed to a little-known 1986 law, from a "certificate of any interest" to a country's "illegal aliens who currently reside in the United States on a national basis."

 

Court action is not a formal ruling, but it leaves in the formulation of laws in the other 11 states allow illegal immigrants to receive in-state tuition, including Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York , Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin.

 

According to a 2001 law, the tuition of qualified students in California who participated in the three years of high school and graduated from California.

 

Last year, in its first ruling, the California Supreme Court said that the state's policy, not with federal law, because the tuition fees for the benefit of the students turned high school, not the conflict he or she lived.

 

Overall, the state said that about 41,000 students participated in last year's tuition fees for this particular rule of advantages, but most of those in the community college students.

 

10-campus University of California (UC) payment system that in 2009, according to national legal provisions, in-state tuition 2,019 students. About 600 people considered to be illegal immigrants.

 

Another 12 countries have explicitly refused to give in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. For its part, the federal government - through the Clinton, Bush and the administration - has not taken any steps to implement the federal requirements, the report said.