"This is not hate, it's the law. We will not allow liberal progressive activists to use emotion to spin this into something it's not. The law is the law." - Dr. Kelli Ward
About 240 current DACA students at the state's universities and a little more than 2,000 DACA students in Maricopa Community Colleges are receiving lower, in-state tuition rates. There are nearly 28,000 DACA recipients in Arizona.
Dreamers have been able to receive lower, in-state tuition rates at the state's three universities — Arizona State University, University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University — since 2015. The rates are substantially less than what non-resident students pay. For example, the in-state rate for undergraduate students at ASU is $10,640 this year compared with $26,470 for non-resident students.
At Maricopa Community Colleges, the in-state rate is $86 per credit hour vs. $241 for non-residents.
Karina Ruiz, board president of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition, a group that advocates for young children brought to the U.S. illegally as children, criticized the state for trying to take away in-state tuition from DACA recipients.
