This paper discursively analyzes the public conversation around immigration as it intrasects with state and federal policy, particularly in relation to higher education. I take in-state resident tuition policy as a departure point for an effort to explain how "undocumented" and "illegal" subject positions are produced through "intra"-secting policy texts, popular journalism, and presidential campaigns. I illustrate how understandings of students become reified into "undocumented" and/or "illegal" identities. Meanwhile, I pay special attention to the discursive productions made available from policy texts, highlighting the use of discourse analysis in the interrogation of social policy.