A proposal to allow illegal immigrants to pay in-state college tuition rates at Colorado universities is expected to sail through the state legislature in the coming weeks, even though it scraps compromises hammered out between Democrats and Republicans during earlier efforts to pass similar bills.
The difference this year is that Democrats control both chambers of the state legislature and the governor’s mansion. They expect to have more than enough votes to make complex compromises unnecessary.
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This attempt will be the seventh time lawmakers have tried to lower tuition rates for undocumented students, who currently pay out-of-state tuition rates even if they’ve lived in the U.S. for their entire lives.
Bill sponsor Sen. Angela Giron said that tuition at some state schools can be twice as much or more for out-of-state students than it is for in-state students.
An effort to change the rates during the last session included a sometimes-confusing middle-tier rate for illegal immigrants, in the hope of attracting Republican support.
