{"id":1252,"date":"2010-11-16T16:58:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T21:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2010-11-16T16:59:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T21:59:43","slug":"california-supreme-court-illegal-immigrants-entitled-to-the-same-tuition-breaks-offered-to-us-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1252","title":{"rendered":"California Supreme Court: illegal immigrants entitled to the same tuition breaks offered to US citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The California Supreme Court weighed in Monday on the politically charged immigration fray when it ruled that illegal immigrants are entitled to the same tuition breaks offered to in-state high school students to attend public colleges and universities.<\/p>\n<p>While the ruling applies only to California, the case was closely watched nationally because nine other states, including New York and Texas, have similar laws.<\/p>\n<p>Republican congressmen Lamar S. Smith of Texas and Steve King of Iowa filed a so-called friends of the court brief urging that illegal immigrants be denied the reduced rate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsvine.com\/_news\/2010\/11\/15\/5470581-court-upholds-in-state-tuition-for-some-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.newsvine.com\/_news\/2010\/11\/15\/5470581-court-upholds-in-state-tuition-for-some-immigrants<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California Supreme Court weighed in Monday on the politically charged immigration fray when it ruled that illegal immigrants are entitled to the same tuition breaks offered to in-state high school students to attend public colleges and universities. While the ruling applies only to California, the case was closely watched nationally because nine other states, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,9,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}