Oklahoma attorney general Gentner Drummond filed a motion in support of the federal government’s legal challenge to in-state tuition for noncitizens.

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The U.S. Department of Justice sued the state of Oklahoma Tuesday over a state law that allows undocumented students to pay in-state tuition rates . Oklahoma is now the fourth state the DOJ has sued for having such a policy.

The state’s Republican attorney general, Gentner Drummond, swiftly sided with the federal government and filed a joint motion in support of quashing the law. He said in a statement that it’s “discriminatory and unlawful” to offer noncitizens lower in-state tuition rates “that are not made available to out-of-state Americans.”

“Today marks the end of a longstanding ex

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