Virginia secures legal victory in fight to defend in-state tuition for undocumented, refugee students

Virginia Can Keep In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants, Judge Rules

The decision went against the Trump administration, which had filed a suit alleging that the state law conflicted with a 1996 federal statute.

Federal judge upholds Virginia law that allows illegal immigrants to get in-state tuition

A federal judge has upheld Virginia’s in-state tuition law, handing Attorney General Jay Jones a victory in a legal battle with the Trump administration.

Virginia secures legal victory in fight to defend in-state tuition for undocumented, refugee students

Virginia was handed a significant legal victory in its fight to defend its law that allows qualifying undocumented and refugee students to pay in-state tuition rates.

Judge scraps Trump challenge to in-state tuition for immigrant students in Virginia

RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — In the latest case over the Trump administration’s attempt at leveraging the Constitution’s supremacy clause against state immigration policy, a federal judge upheld a Virginia law creating in-state tuition rate pathways for immigrant university students on Monday. Granting summary judgment to the commonwealth, Senior U.S. District Judge Robert Payne found both the domicile pathway and the tuition equity pathway of 2020’s Vi…