When I read this, I may have expressed dismay at the short-sighted behavior:

Texas colleges face uncertainty after ruling ends in-state tuition for students without legal status

For more than 20 years, students in Texas could qualify for lower, in-state tuition at public colleges regardless of immigration status if they lived in the state for at least three years and graduated from a Texas high school or earned a GED. That changed this week.

Lucio Vasquez, The Texas NewsroomJune 6, 2025, 2:38 PM via Houston Public Media

MALDEF president Thomas Saenz is quoted in the piece as saying:

“What the state of Texas and the federal government participated in is an anti-democratic and unprecedented abuse of the judicial system,” Saenz said.

Yep, they have taken steps to deny non-citizens access to education. Even if people were to become citizens in the future, they would still be at the mercy of rich people and with little recourse to the great equalizer, an education.

Keep folk ignorant doesn’t seem too smart in the long-run. Texas is now on record with this step. How will this affect children?

No worries, I get it. Here’s your millstone, er, medal: