Kentucky Wanted This Fight: Former Ag Backs Illegal Immigrant Tuition Lawsuit As Voter-approved

Former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, nan GOP frontrunner for retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell’s spot successful 2026, told Fox News Digital nan Justice Department's suit complete discounted tuition for forbidden immigrants is precisely nan benignant of conflict Kentuckians voted for.

Cameron lambasted Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, nan top-named suspect successful nan suit, aft Beshear's agency told Fox News Digital nan imaginable 2028 hopeful had nary relationship to nan issuance of nan acquisition regulation.

"Andy Beshear is ever attempting to walk nan buck. The truth of nan matter is, he's nan politician of nan commonwealth and he controls nan executive branch. He gets to name group connected nan various boards and commissions that exist," Cameron said.

"He's moreover sewage a suit correct now against statewide elected officeholders successful nan legislature, fundamentally saying that he controls nan Ethics Commission. And, so, you know, he can't person his barroom and eat it, too."

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Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron (AP)

Cameron praised Attorney General Pam Bondi for bringing nan case, saying he’s gladsome nan DOJ is reviewing a "preposterous" policy.

"I deliberation it's good clip that we return attraction of our American citizens arsenic opposed to illegals," Cameron said.

"I deliberation our legislature, nan Republican legislature, is rightly trying to return backmost immoderate control," Cameron added, arsenic a measure moves done Frankfort that would preclude illegals from being considered in-state residents for acquisition purposes.

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"This politician tries to activity by fiat, and our legislature is trying to reconstruct nan balance, if you will," he said.

"This is astir protecting nan position of American citizens. I mean, nan thought that we would springiness reduced aliases subsidized tuition, in-state tuition for illegals is conscionable an absurd notion, particularly erstwhile you're telling out-of-state Americans that they've sewage to salary afloat freight. That doesn't walk nan smell test," he said.

When reached for comment, Beshear governmental strategist Eric Hyers rejected those characterizations.

"We get Daniel Cameron is struggling pinch his attempted governmental comeback, but that doesn't mean he tin make things up," Hyers said.

He added that nan regularisation allowing in-state tuition for illegals was crafted 2 decades agone and that "if he had a problem pinch its legality, he should person done thing astir it while he was lawyer general."

"The reality is that this is group by an independent board, and nan politician doesn't person immoderate reappraisal of it; nan GOP-controlled legislature does. If this was specified a concern, nan GOP supermajority could person passed nan measure to reside it that was introduced past convention by 1 of their ain members," Hyers said.

In his interview, Cameron besides warned nan separator information rumor itself has greatly affected his authorities successful different ways, citing nan Appalachian fentanyl epidemic.

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"Kentuckians attraction profoundly astir making judge that we are protecting our borders and making judge group are present legally. … And we cognize that fentanyl is coming crossed a porous confederate separator and making its measurement into nan commonwealth.

"Since President Trump has been successful office, arsenic he stated successful his associated reside to Congress, we didn't request a caller policy, we needed a caller president. So, that has changed, but Kentuckians still admit nan interest astir illegals who travel into this country, bring poison into this state that wounded our communities aliases perpetrate immoderate benignant of convulsive crime.

"President Trump is committed to helping nan hardworking folks of this country. And this is conscionable different facet of that."

Cameron besides noted he is starring nan different awesome Republican, U.S. Rep. Andy Barr of Kentucky, successful nan title to switch McConnell.

However, Kentucky has been trending bluer successful caller elections and has a akin electoral constitution to swing-state Pennsylvania, which has a Democratic politician and, until recently, a Republican mostly legislature.

Beshear defeated Cameron successful 2023 by astir 5 points, while nan incumbent, boy of erstwhile Gov. Steve Beshear, squeezed retired an upset against Republican Gov. Matt Bevin by a fraction of a constituent successful 2019.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., defeated State Rep. Charles Booker, D-Louisville, by much than 20 points successful 2022, while McConnell won a narrower title against retired Lt. Col. Amy McGrath successful 2020.