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Fighting the DREAM (Act)

By immigrationprof

Rep. Jim Jackson has introduced a bill in the Texas Legislature, House Bill 141, which would rescind a Texas law passed in 2001 allowing immigrant children in Texas to pay the lower, in-state tuition rates at public universities. It is one of four similar house bills this session. “I don’t think people who are here illegally should receive benefits,” Jackson said. “If they’re not here legally, they just ain’t legal.” Gov. Rick Perry, who signed the original legislation granting in-state tuition, has said he will oppose any effort to repeal it. The bill was passed unanimously in the Senate and with one dissenting vote in the House in 2001.  Click here for the commentary of the Texas Observer on the bill.

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