Ron DeSantis tried to crusade against undocumented students. Florida is fighting back

Latest anti-immigration agenda pushes to strip in-state tuition rates from tens of thousands of college students

It was a week in which two of Ron DeSantis's flagship culture war crusades - education and immigration - collided. And it did not end well for Florida's hard-right Republican governor.

Alongside a revolt by previously loyal lawmakers upset by DeSantis's power grab" in trying to write and impose immigration law, he also found himself under fire from tens of thousands of undocumented college and university students furious at his push to strip them of in-state tuition rates.