DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit accusing Virginia of unlawfully granting illegal aliens in-state resident discounts on college tuition.

The state’s education code classifies illegal immigrants as Virginia residents, qualifying them for reduced in-state tuition costs, the lawsuit claims.

This policy, therefore, allows illegal immigrants to access benefits not available to most other Americans, making it “not only wrong but illegal,” the DOJ stated.

“Federal law prohibits States from providing aliens who are not lawfully present in the United States with any postsecondary education benefit that is........

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