Texas Migrants Denied in In-State College Tuition Challenge

Migrant college students in Texas can’t intervene to undo a controversial legal collaboration between the Trump administration and state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) that ended in-state tuition for noncitizens.

The students failed to state a plausible claim that would enable them to join the lawsuit and thus remain ineligible for the lower tuition rate, Northern District of Texas Judge Reed O’Connor wrote in an order Friday.

In rejecting their bid, O’Connor pointed to a 1996 federal law that largely makes noncitizens ineligible for postsecondary benefits that aren’t available to all US citizens. Texas has long offered in-state tuition to ...