Supreme Court shuts door on challenge to UC policy on immigrant tuition

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will not take up a conservative group’s challenge to UC Regents’ decisions that allow undocumented immigrants in California to pay in-state tuition fees and to receive financial aid.

In-state residents now pay $12,630 a year in tuition and fees to attend the University of California, compared with $40,644 for out-of-state residents.

State lawmakers voted in 2001 to grant in-state tuition to all students, regardless of immigration status, at California’s public colleges and universities. But the legislation directly affected only California State University and community colleges, because the state Constitution grants independent status to UC under the governance of the Board of Regents.

The regents then voted to make the lower fees available at UC campuses to students who had attended high school in California and had applied to legalize their immigration status. They took the same steps after legislators passed laws in 2011 and 2014 making unauthorized immigrants eligible for state financial aid and loans.

The Supreme Court denies 14th Amendment rights to out of state students!