Imagine telling a kid from Kansas who’s scraping together change for community college that someone in the country illegally gets to slide into a four-year university with full in-state tuition and a scholarship package to boot. Welcome to Minnesota in 2025 — where being in the country illegally earns you a better deal than being born in it.
This week, the Trump administration’s Department of Justice did what should’ve been done years ago: They sued Minnesota over its so-called "North Star Promise" program. The law hands out in-state tuition and taxpayer-funded scholarships to undocumented immigrants — while out-of-state American citizens get stuck with sky-high bills. That’s not generosity. That’s betrayal.
Let’s be clear. This isn’t about kids who worked hard. It’s not about “being heartless.” It’s about basic fairness — and the growing trend of illegals gaming a broken system at the expense of citizens who are playing by the rules.
For years, progressive states have chipped away at immigration enforcement through the back door — offering freebies and state-level amnesty under the guise of "inclusion." Now, they're using taxpayer-funded college tuition as a political trophy. But when benefits meant for citizens go to people who broke our laws to get here, something’s rotten in the land of 10,000 lakes.
This isn’t hypothetical. Just ask the American students being priced out of the very schools they were raised to dream about. You think it’s easy for a farm kid from rural Iowa to compete with free rides handed to undocumented students who’ve never paid into the system? Or how about the single mom in Alabama working two jobs to send her daughter to college, only to watch states like Minnesota gift wrap scholarships to illegals who just "happen to be here"?
It’s not compassion. It’s contempt — for the taxpayer, for legal immigrants, and for every kid in this country who grew up believing hard work was supposed to matter.
And Minnesota isn’t alone. At least 20 other states now offer similar in-state tuition deals to undocumented immigrants. Sixteen go even further, handing out financial aid on top of that. That’s not a safety net — that’s a hammock. And it’s swinging wildly out of control.
The left loves to preach about fairness and equity. But what could be less fair than rewarding those who broke the rules while punishing those who followed them? If you want to see where this leads, look no further than California, where entire university systems have become shadow sanctuaries, flush with subsidies for the undocumented while middle-class American families drown in debt.
Enough.
America is not a charity for the world’s lawbreakers. Our resources are limited. Our schools are strained. And our loyalty should begin — not end — with the people who are actually citizens of this country.
The DOJ’s lawsuit isn’t an attack on students. It’s a long-overdue defense of the rule of law, of common sense, and of American kids who’ve been treated like second-class citizens in their own country for far too long.
Let the courts decide whether Minnesota’s law is “illegal” under federal statutes. But let the people decide if it’s morally bankrupt to treat illegals like VIPs while treating Americans like afterthoughts.
Because here’s the truth: Rewarding illegal behavior doesn’t fix the system — it breaks it. And the only thing worse than ignoring the law is rewriting it to benefit those who never respected it to begin with.
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