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The Trump administration has spent its first few months engaging in ideological warfare against colleges and universities. It has canceled, restricted, or threatened to withhold billions in federal funding in an attempt to subjugate colleges to the administration’s political goals. Now, it’s retroactively changing the terms of approved grant funding based on political musings and false claims rather than any grounding in federal law. This has jeopardized colleges receiving funding, sowing chaos for institutions and students alike.
Last month, the U.S. Department of Education announced it was revoking waivers approved for California and Oregon colleges, which allowed them to help undocumented students in college support programs.
"American taxpayers will no longer be used to subsidize illegal immigrants," Acting Under Secretary James Bergeron said in the announcement.
Typically, undocumented students can't legally participate in certain programs. But the Performance Partnership Pilot (P3) initiative, which Congress established in 2014, allows federal agencies to waive regulations in order to better serve vulnerable students.
The Education Department had approved California and Oregon to waive student eligibility regulations under TRIO Programs, which provide academic and career services to students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The waiver allowed participating colleges in those states to provide undocumented students the same support services given to their...
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