Offering in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants has gone over big in Texas, but that technique hasn’t been so successful in other states with similar laws on the books.
The Boston Globe reports “more modest increases in the majority of states providing such benefits.” Texas, with its 1.4 million undocumented immigrants, increased immigrant enrollment in its public universities from 1,500 in the fall of 2001 to roughly 8,000 last year.
Meanwhile, in California, where there are roughly 2.4 million undocumented immigrants, the University of California system saw an increase of only 357 illegal immigrant students.
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Andrew Careaga 