Colleges across Texas are bracing for the fallout, and uncertainty, of a court decision that could price thousands of students without legal status out of higher education.

For more than 20 years, students in Texas could qualify for lower, in-state tuition at public colleges regardless of immigration status if they lived in the state for at least three years and graduated from a Texas high school or earned a GED. Republicans in power at the time, including then-Gov. Rick Perry, supported the 2001 Texas Dream Act .

But that changed on Wednesday , when U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor declared the law unconstitutional and invalid. His decision came just hours after a joint request from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the U.S. Department of Justice that the two-decades old law be

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