Daily Caller: An Atlanta-based immigration lawyer on Tuesday lost a bid to secure in-state tuition for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program enrolled in Georgia’s public universities and colleges.
Charles Kuck, who is representing a group of illegal immigrant students who sued the state in 2016, argued the students’ deferred status under the now-cancelled DACA program gives them lawful presence in the U.S., a key requirement for in-state tuition under Georgia law.
The Georgia Court of Appeals disagreed with that argument, ruling Tuesday there is no provision of federal or state law that says DACA recipients — commonly known as “Dreamers” — are lawfully present just because they are temporarily protected from deportation. As a result, state colleges and universities in Georgia aren’t required to let them pay in-state tuition, the court said, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Kuck initially won a victory for the Dreamers in January, when a Fulton County Superior Court judge ordered the university system to give the students a tuition break if they were otherwise qualified. That order was stayed while the state appealed. more
The lawyers and judges in these cases should be disbarred for their sheer hypocrisy if nothing else. At the end of the linked article:
“Kuck plans to appeal the case to the Georgia Supreme Court.”
“If the government writes the policy, they are required to live by that policy,” he said, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press. “They don’t just get to willy-nilly say words mean different things.”
Why doesn’t this supposed attorney read the actual LAW for a change that clearly states that these people should never have been allowed to enter the country at all and should have been deported as soon as it was discovered they were criminal invaders of our sovereign territory. There should be no question of any kind regarding tuition because they shouldn’t be here in the first place.
At least a small number of judges here in GA seem to have their heads screwed on somewhat straight at this point – I guess we’ll see if our supreme court judges are as willing to show common sense in upholding the law to at least some extent.
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Lawyer Charles Kuck. Chuck the Kuck. Perfect name.
Charging an American citizen from another state an exorbitant amount of additional tuition than an in-state student and an illegal alien seems to be a blatantly unconstitutional violation of equality under the law.
How do the people who argue showing a $16 photo ID in order to vote is a poll tax that disenfranchises people but forcing a fellow citizen thousands of dollars a year while giving preferential treatment to others on the basis of race or nationality isn’t? I know how but I would still like to hear them say it.
Are any of these Judges awarding costs to the government? Who’s paying for Kuck or is he playing pro bono?