Ten immigrants who have received a special reprieve from deportation filed suit in the Fulton County Superior Court Tuesday, seeking once again to force the Georgia Board of Regents to allow them to pay substantially lower in-state college tuition here.
The lawsuit focuses on students who have been admitted into the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. The program grants deportation deferrals and work permits to immigrants who were illegally brought to the U.S. as children, who don’t have felony convictions and who are enrolled in school here.
Georgia’s in-state tuition policy requires "lawful presence." So the plaintiffs are pointing to federal records that say DACA recipients are "lawfully present" in the U.S.
Read more at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/immigrants-without-legal-status-sue-for-in-state-t/nrCHm/