The Colorado Senate's Republicans and Democrats are working together to get their illegal immigrant students into college with in-state tuition. Maybe the best hope is for individual states to enact their own DREAM Acts. - - Donna Poisl
By Tim Hoover, The Denver Post
A bill that would allow illegal immigrants to attend college at the in-state tuition rate stands a good chance of passing the Colorado Senate, and supporters say the measure could even pass the Republican-controlled House.
The conventional wisdom this session had the bill unable to clear the Democrat-led Senate, where a similar measure died in 2009 after a handful of Democrats joined Republicans in voting against it.
But things have changed. The ASSET bill — standing for "Advancing Students for a Stronger Economy Tomorrow" — has been reworked from the 2009 version so that the students in question would not receive a direct state subsidy called the Colorado Opportunity Fund scholarship.
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