'Discriminating against DACA students'

'Discriminating against DACA students'

The Wall Street Journal editorial board

The Education Department is "harassing colleges that provide scholarships to young people who came to the country illegally as children," says The Wall Street Journal editorial board. Many "Dreamers have no memory of or ties to their home countries," and "most couldn't afford tuition at these schools without scholarships." Denying "Dreamers an opportunity to learn and advance in society doesn't help anyone." This is "one more way of punishing Dreamers because their parents crossed illegally into the U.S. decades ago."

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