The Trump administration is coming down hard on illegal immigrants who are taking state benefits not available to many other American taxpayers — but blue states are fighting back.
The Department of Justice has filed its 13th lawsuit against tuition funding for illegal immigrants, this time in Maryland. Since 2011, the state’s law has allocated the benefits that legal citizens receive for in-state college tuition to illegals, if they pay taxes and their children graduated high school in Maryland.
The filing comes as part of the Trump administration’s broader crackdown on illegal immigration across the country, one of the hallmark commitments of the Department of Justice. The Maryland case follows other lawsuits of a similar nature in Illinois, Minnesota, Virginia, California, New Jersey, Kansas, Massachusetts, Texas, and Rhode Island.