Watchdog group to hold news conference on illegal immigrant tuition referendum effort


By Associated Press, Updated: Wednesday, October 26, 9:32 PM

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A conservative watchdog group is hosting a news conference to discuss developments in an ongoing debate over a Maryland law that would allow illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition under certain circumstances.

Judicial Watch is holding the news conference in Annapolis on Thursday with two leaders of a petition drive to put the law on the ballot in 2012 for voters to decide.

Delegates Neil Parrott and Patrick McDonough are scheduled to attend. The Republican lawmakers led the petition drive that was certified as successful by the state elections board.

However, attorneys for groups supporting the legislation have filed a lawsuit that challenges the certification of the petition drive. They say the legislation cannot be put to a referendum, because it provides government funding for education.

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