"Abruptly raising the price of tuition would make higher education unaffordable for thousands of young Texans who have been through the public school system in Texas."
Undocumented students will no longer have access to reduced tuition rates at Texas public universities, as legal residents do. A federal judge has struck down a law that favored foreign students for more than 20 years.
The lawsuit argues that the UC system's hiring policies are discriminatory, calling for a court ruling that would enable undocumented students to work legally under state law.
