L.A. Times Quotes Professor Johnson on Suits Targeting Undocumented Students' Tuition in Other States

Professor Kevin R. Johnson spoke to the Los Angeles Times for a June 23 story about the Trump administration suing Texas and Kentucky to end laws allowing undocumented students to pay in-state tuition, and asking whether California will be next.

“We are just waiting to see when it’s California’s turn,” Johnson told the Times. Johnson predicted the White House was going after “lower-hanging fruit” in more conservative states before California, where Trump will face “firm resistance.”

Kevin R. Johnson is a distinguished professor of law, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law. Johnson is the director of the Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies and also has an appointment as professor of Chicana/o studies at UC Davis. He served as dean of UC Davis Law from 2008 to 2024. Johnson is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of immigration law and policy, refugee law and civil rights.