For two decades on Texas college campuses, it was a resilient law in the face of Republicans' hardening immigration agenda: in-state tuition prices for students who did not have legal resident status.

Vance, who was among Musk's staunchest defenders after Trump took office in January, weighed in on the president's falling out with Musk on X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday evening.

The act created a legal mechanism called "expedited removal," a process that allows the deportation of certain noncitizens without a court hearing.