{"id":1452,"date":"2025-07-06T16:09:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T16:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2025-07-06T16:09:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T16:09:59","slug":"doj-sues-minnesota-over-financial-aid-for-illegal-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=1452","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Sues Minnesota Over Financial Aid for Illegal Immigrants:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Federal Lawsuit Targets Minnesota\u2019s Aid for Undocumented Students<\/strong><br>The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Minnesota and Governor Tim Walz over the Minnesota Dream Act, which gives undocumented immigrants access to in-state college tuition and state aid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DOJ claims this violates the Equal Protection Clause by offering better rates to undocumented residents than to U.S. citizens from other states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pam Bondi stated, \u201cNo state can be permitted to treat Americans as second-class citizens\u2026 by providing financial benefits to illegal aliens.\u201d The DOJ added, \u201cThe extent of this discrimination against U.S. citizens is significant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Political and Legal Fallout<\/strong><br>Governor Walz, who recently ran for vice president, defended the program, saying, \u201cThe country was not ready for the message we were promoting.\u201d State Attorney General Keith Ellison is expected to lead the legal defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Part of a Broader Federal Push<\/strong><br>The lawsuit aligns with Trump\u2019s wider crackdown on state benefits for undocumented immigrants, following an executive order and a Supreme Court decision limiting nationwide injunctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Redefining Citizenship and Benefits<\/strong><br>Analysts say these efforts signal a shift in who is considered eligible for public support\u2014raising key questions about rights and citizenship in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Lawsuit Targets Minnesota\u2019s Aid for Undocumented StudentsThe U.S. Department of Justice is suing Minnesota and Governor Tim Walz over the Minnesota Dream Act, which gives undocumented immigrants access to in-state college tuition and state aid. The DOJ claims this violates the Equal Protection Clause by offering better rates to undocumented residents than to U.S&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}