Panel votes to end tuition break for undocumented students

By Lee Davidson

The Salt Lake Tribune
First published 6 hours ago
Updated 2 minutes ago Updated Feb 18, 2011 05:21PM

After emotional pleas from both sides, a House committee voted 10-5 on Friday to repeal resident tuition for state college students who are in the country illegally but graduated from a Utah high school.

The vote left several students crying and hugging.

“The purpose of this bill is to do away with taxpayer-subsidized discount tuition that we give to illegal immigrants to go to college,â€