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Illegal Immigrant Tuition Bill Clears First Committee

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A bill that would let illegal immigrants who graduate from Colorado high schools pay in state college tuition cleared the Democratic controlled senate education committee on a party line vote on Thursday.

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kunc/local-kunc-953148.mp3The committee room was packed, and an opponent of the controversial bill even asked that all non-citizens be removed from the hearing room. KUNC’s State Capitol Reporter Bente Birkeland has more.

Bente Birkeland is an award-winning journalist who joined Colorado Public Radio in August 2018 after a decade of reporting on the Colorado state capitol for the Rocky Mountain Community Radio collaborative and KUNC. In 2017, Bente was named Colorado Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and she was awarded with a National Investigative Reporting Award by SPJ a year later.