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Murdoch Paper Rips Trump Over His Plot to Punish Migrants’ Kids

August 5, 2025
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The Wall Street Journal has torn into Donald Trump for “discriminating” against Dreamers after a crackdown was launched at five universities.

The Department of Education launched a series of “national origin discrimination investigations” at five colleges with scholarship programmes specifically designated for Dreamers—undocumented young people who arrived in the U.S. before 2007, have no ties to their parents’ country of origin, and who were granted clemency under the Obama administration.

WSJ, in an opinion written by its editorial board, said the investigations seem to be punishing dreamers for the crimes of their parents.

The DoE announced a crackdown on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) students, or Dreamers, at Louisville, Nebraska Omaha, Miami, Michigan, and Western Michigan universities in July.

Dreamer students are often, the WSJ said, from modest backgrounds, and their legal status means they are not eligible for federal aid, meaning such scholarships are their only source of aid.

Now, the Trump administration has argued that colleges which provide such scholarships are “discriminating against native-born Americans,” and citing the 1964 Civil Rights Act to advance its agenda.

“Why is [the Trump administration] needlessly harassing colleges that provide scholarships to young people who came to the country illegally as children?” the WSJ asked in a furious editorial piece Tuesday, claiming the move is “discriminating against DACA students.”

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 03: Education Secretary Linda McMahon testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee's Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee about the proposed 15-percent cut to the Education Department's budget in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on June 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump tasked McMahon with shutting down the Education Department, however, its FY2026 budget maintains spending levels for Title I and special education while slashing funding for Pell Grants and other programs for low-income students.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Education Secretary Linda McMahon has claimed Dreamers “should not be given special preference over American citizens for scholarships at American universities.” Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

In an X post announcing the investigations, Education Secretary Linda McMahon said, “Non-citizens should not be given special preference over American citizens for scholarships at American universities.”

But the Journal rejected McMahon’s logic. “Denying Dreamers an opportunity to learn and advance in society doesn’t help anyone. It’s another example of the way the Trump Administration’s mass deportation agenda is at war with the country’s need for human talent,” the paper wrote. “Keep in mind these DACA students are currently legal residents of the U.S.”

It added, “The real point of these investigations seems to be one more way of punishing Dreamers because their parents crossed illegally into the U.S. decades ago. Ditto the Justice Department’s lawsuits against states that provide lower in-state tuition to Dreamers.”

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN - APRIL 3: University of Michigan students walk on the UM campus next to signage displaying the University's
The University of Michigan is one of five colleges targeted by the administration. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

The DoE’s office for civil rights also announced it would be investigating scholarships that appear to exclude students based on race and national origin.

Craig Trainor, Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, said, “Neither the Trump Administration’s America First policies nor the Civil Rights 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 United States.”

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 22: The News Corporation building stands in midtown Manhattan, which houses both the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones & Co., on July 22, 2025, in New York City. Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch, his company News Corp, its CEO Robert Thomson, and two Wall Street Journal reporters over an article that claims Trump gave his then-friend Jeffrey Epstein a sexually suggestive letter for Epstein’s 50th birthday. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Rupert Murdoch’s Wall St Journal has frequently been at odds with Donald Trump throughout his second term. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The Journal accused Trainor of having a “rationale in search of a problem that doesn’t exist,” and the government of discriminating against Dreamers.

The University of Louisville, the University of Nebraska Omaha, the University of Miami, the University of Michigan and Western Michigan University are the five colleges being investigated by the DoE over the alleged discrimination.

Earlier this year, the University of Michigan announced it was cutting its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs following pressure from the federal government.

The Daily Beast has reached out to the Department of Education for further comment.

The post Murdoch Paper Rips Trump Over His Plot to Punish Migrants’ Kids appeared first on The Daily Beast.

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