From Deseret News archives:
Again with the instate tuition
His remarks dove-tail nicely with recent pleas for "compassion" from the leadership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (which owns this newspaper).
But if we were struck by Bishop Wester's remarks, we were struck dumb by the unfortunate and wrong-headed attempt once again of some members of the Utah Legislature to hike tuition costs for the hapless and cash-strapped students who have ended up in the United States through no choice of their own. These students are simply trying to make the best of a bad situation.
Rep. Glenn Donnelson of Ogden is trying once again to repeal the law allowing undocumented students to pay instate tuition for college. They don't get a hand-out. It's not even a scholarship. They pay what others pay, but only if they completed at least three years of high school in Utah first. And the special status affects a mere handful of students probably not enough young people to fill the day shift at just one mom-and-pop business.
Give us a break.
Then give these young people a break.
It's time for legislators to climb off the high horse and get back on the work horse. Real issues and problems exist. Killing instate tuition for a handful of unfortunate children is not one of them.
Utah legislators need to display large hearts, not small minds. They need to think big, not narrow. Creative and visionary thinking are badly needed.
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