Two students seek to participate in tuition lawsuit

By Associated Press

Published November 21, 2013 5:00am ET

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Two students seek to participate in tuition lawsuit — Immigration activists and supporters of the Dream Act, Raquel Guerrero, right, Carlos Corral, and Leslie Meraz, left, all current college students, burn their high school diplomas as they join others gathering in front of Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne's Office to protest Horne's decision not to drop his lawsuit against community colleges that offer lower in-state tuition to students who are not citizens or legal residents, but qualify for the federal Deferred Action program, in Phoenix. (AP/Ross D. Franklin) | Ross D. Franklin

PHOENIX (AP) — Two college students are asking a judge to let them help defend Maricopa County Community College District from a lawsuit that seeks to block the district’s policy of providing in-state tuition to young immigrants granted deferred deportation by the Obama administration.

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