The U.S. and member States are left with a litany of problems simply because they won’t enforce immigration laws.
Children of illegal immigrants living in Florida are suing the state for charging them out-of-state tuition.
Wendy Ruiz, a sophomore at Miami Dade College, is one of those behind the lawsuit.
She is paying $5,000 more than she technically has to, because her college insisted upon charging her out-of-state tuition when her parents were unable to produce legal immigration documents.
Ruiz was born in the United States, and has lived in Florida her entire life. As such, she is both an American and Florida citizen in the eyes of the law.
“It’s so unfair,” she told CBS Tampa. “I was born here. This makes no sense.”
Rather than keeping quiet, Ruiz chose to take action. She and five other college-age Floridians are now involved in a class-action lawsuit that seeks to overturn the rule.
Miriam Haskell of the Southern Poverty Law Center is working on the case. (Well, of course they are! — Ed )