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5 Colleges Under Investigation Over DACA Scholarships

By Ethan Buchanan
Jul 28, 2025

Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced last week that five different universities across the country are now being investigated by her department over scholarships that they're offering exclusively to DACA recipients.

According to McMahon, students who are Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients are being granted special scholarships by the University of Louisville, the University of Nebraska Omaha, the University of Miami, the University of Michigan, and Western Michigan University.

A list of scholarships that are not available to American citizens or any other legal residents has been made available online by the Education Department. McMahon also posted a statement on X, saying, "Non-citizens should not be given special preference over American citizens for scholarships at American universities."

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Non-citizens should not be given special preference over American citizens for scholarships at American universities. @usedgov opened an investigation into 5 universities for allegedly blocking U.S. students from accessing DACA scholarships.



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William Gheen, founder of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, took it a step further. He said, "Americans are being discriminated against in our own country on a wide scale. The elites are seeking to elevate illegals over U.S. citizens at almost every opportunity."

Gheen went on to point out that there is a simple solution to all of this. He says that "the best answer to this problem would be for President Trump to completely end Obama's unconstitutional and overtly illegal DACA amnesty."

College activists are also calling these universities out for this practice. Trenten Rippey with Young Americans for Liberty says this is likely happening at other colleges across the country and says it's a symptom of the fact that the federal government has become far too involved in colleges.

Rippey says, "It's what's inflated a lot of these costs; it's what's allowed them to get away with these programs for so long. It's up to the taxpayers in each state to start putting some full-on audits on these colleges and start figuring out where the money's going."


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