People in US illegally no longer barred from 2 GA schools

The October 2010 policy came amid public concerns that the state's colleges and universities were being flooded by people in the country illegally, that taxpayers were subsidizing their education and that legal residents were being displaced.

Three immigrant students who are beneficiaries of a 2012 Obama administration policy that granted temporary permission to live and work in the U.S. to young people brought to the country as children and are living here illegally but who meet certain criteria filed a lawsuit in September challenging the policy.

The Regents have said students with temporary permission to stay under that program — known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA — do not meet the requirement of "lawful presence" in the U.S.