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Virginia House Moves to Bar Undocumented Immigrants from Higher Ed « Student Activism

Virginia House Moves to Bar Undocumented Immigrants from Higher Ed « Student Activism

Virginia House Moves to Bar Undocumented Immigrants from Higher Ed

Virginia’s House of Delegates this week passed a bill that would block all undocumented immigrants from attending the state’s public colleges and universities. To my knowledge, only one state — South Carolina — currently imposes such a ban.

Virginia’s bill, House Bill 1465, was one of about a dozen bills recently passed by the Republican-controlled