Advocacy in Georgia

Georgia is home to 60,380 eligible DACA Dreamers as of December 2020.

• GA State law currently bars many noncitizen residents like DACA recipients from qualifying for in-state college tuition, which tends to be much lower than what students arriving from outside Georgia pay.
• In October 2010, the GA Board of Regents adopted a policy that any person not lawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible for admission to any University System of Georgia (USG) institution.
• In March 2021, the House Higher Education Committee passed a measure brought by Rep. Kasey Carpenter, R-Dalton, that would extend lower-cost tuition rates to thousands of so-called “Dreamers” in Georgia who are protected from deportation under the federal DACA program. Supporters say lowering tuition rates would bolster Georgia’s workforce with better-educated and higher-skilled workers in Georgia while giving longtime residents a reprieve as they navigate paths to citizenship.