The state of Arizona is asking the Court of Appeals to uphold Proposition 300, and rule Dreamers are not eligible for the same lower tuition rates as legal Arizonans.
Late Wednesday, the Attorney General acknowledged that the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, gives some Dreamers-- young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children-- the right to remain in the U.S. and hold jobs but maintained that they do not have lawful immigration status. That’s the test Prop 300 uses to qualify for in-state tuition and other taxpayer-funded benefits.
Arizona voters approved Prop 300 in 2006.