Repeal of immigrant’s tuition waiver clears first hurdle - Utah

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Posted on: January 30th, 2008
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“For Rep. Carol Spackman Moss it was deja vu all over again.

“Here we go again,” Moss, D-Holladay, said Tuesday before the House Education Committee voted 8-5 in favor of a measure that would repeal a 2002 law allowing undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition at Utah’s public colleges and universities if they attend a Utah high school for three years and graduate.

“We have to be forward thinking and believe the laws will be changed to allow them to continue,” Moss said. “I find it mean-spirited, wrong-headed and punitive to try and repeal this law.”"*

*From: http://deseretnews.com
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