News 21 readers are by now familiar with Kris Kobach, the one-man army against illegal immigration. Kobach, who has litigated everything from Hazleton, Pa.’s defense of its immigration ordinance to a suit against San Francisco’s sanctuary law, is also fighting Kansas over a law that lets illegal immigrants who have attended state high schools to pay in-state tuition at state universities. He has also challenged a similar law in California.

Kobach is especially passionate about this case because it is taking place in his home state, where he is also the Republican Party Chair, and after four years he has won a potential victory. A federal appellate court reversed a lower court’s decision upholding California’s law.

Kobach, who represented a group of out-of-state students against California’s state and community college system, told a Kansas public radio station that high school students who are the children of illegal immigrants should go back to the country where they were born and then try to reenter the country legally.

“The smartest thing to do would be to get on the legal side of the law,” he said.

Kobach said he hopes that the Kansas law, which was modeled after California’s, will be weakened by this ruling. If that happens, it will be one less ongoing court case—out of at least five—that the ever-present attorney has to deal with.

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