California Colleges to Sue Feds for Not Giving Coronavirus Funds to ‘Dreamers’

Institutes of higher education are in the business of educating, but California community colleges are focused on suing the federal government for not providing money to students attending these schools who are not citizens but are protected from deportation for being in the country illegally through the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

Close to a million DACA recipients — or “dreamers” as open borders advocates have dubbed them — attend these colleges and deserve money from the government, according to the Los Angeles Times:

"California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley and the system’s Board of Governors filed suit this week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco against the Department of Education and Secretary Betsy DeVos over eligibility restrictions placed on the use of federal aid money for students, arguing that the restrictions are unconstitutional.

“The Department of Education ignored the intent of the CARES Act to give local colleges discretion to aid students most affected by the pandemic, and instead has arbitrarily excluded as many as 800,000 community college students,” Oakley said in a statement.

Guidance from the Department of Education said that only students who are eligible for federal financial aid can get assistance, which leaves out DACA recipients, “students without high school diplomas; students enrolled in non-credit programs; and students who fail to maintain satisfactory academic progress.”

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