Colorado should face DOJ probe over law giving illegal immigrant students cheaper tuition over Americans: watchdog

Source: New York Post

WASHINGTON — A Colorado law that allows illegal immigrants to receive in-state tuition should be investigated for “discriminating against American-born students,” a civil rights watchdog charges. The Equal Protection Project is calling on the Justice Department’s Division of Civil Rights to probe Colorado’s Advancing Students for a Stronger Tomorrow (ASSET) tuition program, arguing it is giving illegal aliens benefits that out-of-state Americans don’t get. Existing federal law prohibits higher education institutions from giving benefits to illegal immigrants that are not afforded to American citizens.