For the fifth year in a row, Republicans in the Missouri legislature are poised to pass a budget denying in-state tuition and financial aid to undocumented immigrants, including young people registered under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
For the fifth year in a row, Republicans in the Missouri legislature are poised to pass a budget denying in-state tuition and financial aid to undocumented immigrants, including young people registered under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
As House and Senate negotiators finished work Monday on the bill funding higher education for the year beginning July 1, Democrats raised last-minute objections to the restrictive language but were unable to change it. The bill is set for final debate later this week.
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TheDream.US is an organization that provides scholarships for students in states such as Missouri that impose restrictions on tuition or financial aid for undocumented students. It has partner universities in states that do not impose restrictions and has identified five universities — in Connecticut, Delaware, Oregon, Tennessee and West Virginia — that will accept scholarships and charge a maximum of $20,000 per year for all costs of attendance, said Candy Marshall, spokeswoman for the organization.
There are 18 Missouri resident students and 2,600 nationwide who have been awarded the scholarship, she said.
The group’s goal is to go out of business after Congress acts to provide legal status to DACA-eligible immigrants, she said.
“It is very much in our philosophy that we are an organization that does not intend to exist into perpetuity,” Marshall said. “We fully intend that this issue be addressed by Congress. Until it is addressed, it is incumbent on us to step in and help students afford a college education.”
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