Federal judge in Oakland orders financial aid restored to undocumented immigrant students
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to restore financial aid included in the latest coronavirus relief legislation to hundreds of thousands of community college students in California whom she disqualified because they are not U.S. citizens.
The $3.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, known as the CARES Act, signed by President Trump on March 27, included $14 billion in federal funding for college students suffering economic hardships because of the pandemic. DeVos’ Education Department announced rules in late April denying aid to students, mostly non-citizens, who were ineligible for other types of federal funding.
But U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of Oakland said the CARES Act was intended to aid needy students, and there was no evidence that Congress had authorized DeVos’ department to deny funding because of citizenship. She issued an injunction ordering distribution of the funds to community college students statewide without the restrictions DeVos sought to impose.
Congress intended the student aid “to be used for basic necessities, such as food, housing, health care, and childcare, as well as essential tools for learning, such as course materials and technology,” Gonzalez Rogers said. She said the Education Department’s “interpretation of the CARES Act would exclude hundreds of thousands of students — including those in low-income communities and communities of color, which have been affected disproportionately by COVID-19.”
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