Illegal immigrants who call California home will continue to pay
reduced, in-state tuition rates to go to college here -- just
like other state residents -- after the U.S. Supreme Court on
Monday refused to review a legal challenge to a politically
charged state law.  Without comment, the high court let stand a
California Supreme Court ruling in November that unanimously
concluded in-state tuition does not run afoul of federal
immigration laws restricting public education benefits to
illegal immigrants.  In-state tuition is often tens of thousands
of dollars less than tuition for those who reside outside the
state.  The California policy had been challenged by a group of
students from other states who argued that they were being
unfairly discriminated against because they pay the higher out-
of-state tuition fees and are U.S. citizens. Backers of the
lawsuit maintained the law amounts to government encouragement
of illegal immigration, and conflicts with federal law
restricting public aid to illegal immigrants