Thread: Utah House Votes To Repeal In-State Tuition for Illegals

The good news just keeps on coming!!! I'm way excited.
Hopefully this one will pass the Senate and liberal Huntsman's desk as well.

House votes to repeal in-state tuition for illegal immigrants
February 12th, 2008 @ 11:55am
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Illegal immigrants who graduate from a Utah high school would be forced to pay out-of-state tuition at the state's public colleges under a bill approved by the House.

There is a difference of thousands of dollars between in-state and nonresident rates. Illegal immigrants would still be able to attend a public university, but House Bill 241 is intended to make it so that they can't afford to.

The bill's sponsor says it's unethical to encourage illegal immigrants to go to college if they can't legally get a job here after graduating.

"I feel that everyone ought to have an education, but what we're telling these students is that if you graduate you can get a good job, and that is not the case," said Rep. Glenn Donnelson, R-North Ogden.

He said that by encouraging illegal immigrants to get a college education, the state is effectively encouraging them to get falsified documents so they can become employed.

"Which wolf are we? The bad wolf or the good wolf if we encourage breaking the law?" said Donnelson.

The nearly 300 illegal immigrants already enrolled in college would be able to keep paying the lower rate. Tuition would increase in September 2010.

The bill's supporters say offering in-state tuition encourages illegal immigrants to settle here.

Donnelson is also sponsoring a bill that would repeal a card illegal immigrants can get that allows them to drive a car and obtain insurance. He says state law currently makes Utah a sanctuary for illegal immigrants by offering benefits to them.

Opponents contend that children who spent most of their lives here, studied hard and paid their way to college shouldn't be punished because of a decision their parents made to move here illegally.

"Undocumented workers, and in this case their children, are easy targets because they have no legal ground to fight on. So it falls to us to fight for them," said Rep. Phil Riesen, D-Salt Lake City.

Riesen said the only thing lawmakers would accomplish by increasing the cost of tuition is to disenfranchise an entire segment of society along the lines of race and class.

"That has never been what Utah has been about and it should not be now," he said.

HB 241 passed in the House 40-35 Tuesday and will now be heard in the Senate. Another close vote is expected there.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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I am dancing too sippy. They are also taking the drivers license's after 12/2008. I hope we can last that long. But I thought it was going to be good only for 2 years which is up in July this year.

added to the alipac homepage

http://www.alipac.us/article2950.html

ALIPAC Activists that wish to support this bill should use the following FOCUS Campaign and substitute this bill number.

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-103342.html

You should call in support of the license bill and add your support for this bill to stop in-state tuition for illegals.

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-103342.html

W

Why are they not deported. What is wrong with us??
We quibble about in-state versus out of state. Since when does America have to be the education center of the world for uninvited guests? Every year we allow thousands of students to come and study in our universities. They are here legally, having obtained permission to be here.

In-state/out/state , I just say give 'em the gate.

If they sign a contract to take their sheepskin back to country of origin and make it a better place, then I would feel much better about the education issue.


And when , in Heaven's name are we going to stop misinterpreting the anchor baby amendment?????

I used to admire Phil Riesen when he was a news anchor, now I am deeply disappointed in him.

I sent Phil an e-mail a few weeks back and I got a rotten one back. I don't know why he is behaving this way.

WASNT THIS AMENDED TO BE DELAYED FOR TWO YEARS? OR THIS THIS ANOTHER ONE? IF IT IS DELAYED FOR TWO YEARS THEN IT IS A DREAM ACT IN DISQUISE.

Originally Posted by Paige

I sent Phil an e-mail a few weeks back and I got a rotten one back. I don't know why he is behaving this way.

He is obviously in the pockets of big business in Utah. I hope that I never have to see him again.

Originally Posted by Paige

I sent Phil an e-mail a few weeks back and I got a rotten one back. I don't know why he is behaving this way.

He's a Demacrate....enuf said....Im not refering to all Demacrates only the politicians....I know the demacratic American citizens are good people



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