Attorney General Pam Bondi and Texas Republican State Attorney General Ken Paxton revealed last week that they would undo a program offering in-state tuition to illegal aliens.

The tuition program, signed by now-former Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry more than two decades ago, mandated that illegal aliens receive in-state tuition rates, with twenty other states following suit in later years.

Trump administration attorneys filed a lawsuit challenging the provision, noting that the measure stood in contrast to federal laws banning institutions of higher education from providing benefits to illegal aliens that are not offered to citizens.

Bondi commended Paxton for “swiftly working with us to halt a program that was treating Americans like second-class citizens in their own country,” warning that “other states should take note that we will continue filing affirmative litigation to remedy unconstitutional state laws that discriminate against American citizens.”

Under the law, illegal aliens could receive in-state tuition, a benefit not afforded even to Americans living in other states: at the University of Texas at Austin, for example, in-state tuition for the last school year was $11,000 and out-of-state tuition was $41,000.

Paxton added in the release that “this law was an insult to our nation’s citizens and has now been rightly stopped from being enforced.”