An Arizona judge ruled on Tuesday that students brought to the United States illegally by their parents were eligible to pay cheaper in-state tuition in the Maricopa County Community College District, the Associated Press reported.
The ruling, in a lawsuit filed in 2013 by the state's attorney general at the time, represents a victory for the students, known as Dreamers, and the community college, which contended that President Obama's deferred-action program on such immigrants enabled them to demonstrate that they were in the country legally. The program, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, allows those immigrants to apply for deferral of deportation as well as work permits.
Read more at The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/ariz-judge-backs-community-colleges-tuition-break-for-immigrant-students/98405