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Media Advisory
March 30, 2007
Contact: Colleen Coffey
202-266-1910
ccoffey@migrationpolicy.org
 

In-State Tuition for Unauthorized Immigrant Students?
Two Leading Legal Scholars Debate at MPI

While the DREAM Act and Student Adjustment Act are pending in Congress, state legislatures are struggling to decide whether to extend or deny in-state tuition to unauthorized immigrant students.  Since 2001, ten states have extended in-state tuition status to unauthorized immigrants, while three have restricted access. 

Two leading legal experts will debate the merits of proposed federal immigration legislation, the DREAM Act, and in-state college tuition for unauthorized immigrant students.

WHEN: Friday, April 6, 2007, from 9:00 am to 11:00 am

WHO:

Kris W. Kobach is a Professor of Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.  He has served as trial counsel in immigration-related cases in Kansas, California, Missouri and Pennsylvania, where he has brought challenges to residency tuition status for unauthorized immigrants and defended local immigration ordinances in Hazelton, Pennsylvania.  He also served in the Department of Justice as chief advisor on immigration law and border security and counsel to Attorney General John Ashcroft.

Michael A. Olivas is the William B. Bates Distinguished Chair of Law and Director of the Institute of Higher Education Law & Governance at the University of Houston Law Center. He has written about in-state residency plans for many years, drafted several such plans (including the first one, Texas HB 1403), and has served as expert witness and consultant to states seeking to enact and defend such plans. He is also the author of The Law and Higher Education casebook, in its third edition.

WHERE: 1400 16th Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC, 20036

RSVP: Lisa Dixon, events@migrationpolicy.org or 202-266-1929

This event is sponsored by the Migration Policy Institute, Bender’s Immigration Bulletin, and the College Board.

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