The Department of Education launched investigations Wednesday into whether five leading universities are violating federal anti-discrimination law by granting certain scholarships exclusively to undocumented students or those with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status.
The five universities under investigation are the University of Louisville, the University of Miami, the University of Michigan, the University of Nebraska Omaha and Western Michigan University, according to the department’s Office for Civil Rights.
The five were accused in a complaint filed by the Legal Insurrection Foundation’s Equal Protection Project of violating Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in education based on race, color or national origin.
“Neither the Trump Administration’s America first policies nor the Civil Right Act of 1964’s prohibition on national origin discrimination permit universities to deny our fellow citizens the opportunity to compete for scholarships because they were born in the