Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond announces that the State of Oklahoma is partnering with the Trump Administration to end in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.

 

Drummond filed a joint motion on Tuesday, August 5, with the U.S. Department of Justice to end the practice of allowing individuals in the country illegally to attend Oklahoma colleges and universities while paying the same tuition rates as Oklahoma residents. In the filing, Drummond and the U.S. Department of Justice asked the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma to rule that the state statute allowing in-state tuition for illegal immigrants violates the Supremacy Clause and is therefore invalid.

 

President Trump issued an executive order in April notifying colleges and universities across the nation that they could face punishment for allowing illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition while charging U.S. citizens higher out-of-state rates.

 

Attorney General Drummond called the move the end of the long-standing exploitation of Oklahoma taxpayers.