Claim: " law says that you can't give in-state tuition to an illegal alien … unless you first offer it to any other student regardless of their state of residence."
Fact-check: Head of Rhode Islanders for Immigration Law Enforcement says federal law prohibits granting in-state tuition to undocumented students
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Lynn Arditi
Date published: 2011-10-02T00:00:00