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Show Legal, Economic, and Moral Implications of the Proposed Repeal of Utah's In-State Tuition Benefits for Undocumented Immigrants Ltvl Jones (Tom Malon«y) Department of Economics As i i<ih ^|y=nek£y uuni increase In the number of undocumented immkjrants living In the state, many com pie* and coni roversal Issue* arm rega idi ng hew. and perhaps If, 1 h rs grovrf ng segrnenr orthe poFXj|atk>n should t» Integraied Into Liah ^-Dmmunltles. IniCKEIheUiah State Legislature passed House BIN 144LHB144;- which makes undocumented Immigrants who attend Liah high schools for 1 h ree years and obtain a 11. h sc hcol d ipkmia or Ms eq u rvalent ellgl ble to attend Uiah s institutions of nlgher learning vitil te paying In-ita1e turtlon rates This has set off a debate about whethen he s*ate It Jusdfiec n directly and openly provdlrg public benefits 1o undocumented Immigrants llulng In Utah Oppon^inionl^ rurrlon breaks For undocumented irnni grant college slucfents haue I n1 reduced hbu^e Bill / (h&/^ which repeals che benefiu enacted bv H &144 In 2OTZ. Although the bll I has been eFTectluery prevented from coming to a vote ^n the floor of che Utah house of Representatives In the past three years chai n has been Introduced, rhl-5 year nclucfed. it IshkelyihatthetHlland the issues surrounding It wilkome up again In future legislative sessions. 3oth those ^hc-oppc^e l u n &n bleaks fcM undocumented students and ihc-se who support them employ argu-menB to advance thel r potions on fega [ ecorwmlc, and moral grounds. In chls thesis I exa mine 1 he arguments nf* both sides as chey are presented in pu bk siatements as well as publhacions produced b? chose on bochsdes ^rthe debate. I evaluate the economic argument made bv both H &/s supfwf lers and Us detractors in 1 he llghc tfcurrenteconomk literature, vitilc h dracussesche undKumenied Immlgrani popubtlonand checc^tsand ben-3li1i oF educating chls group. While many points c-f controversy surrounding lhralssuearematteis of specubtlon and personal opinion, I try to present an organized analysis c-f the pcMentlal legal, economic, and moral Implications For the state of Utah IMn-stale tuition benefits for u nefcx u mented Immigrants are repealed ii examining theargumems f and against III---" ¦ terms of le^l, economic Im plications oF the bill. I Found thai HB^ supporters made 1 heir sircngesi argumems on legal grounds, wh lie Ht^s detractors presented more ¦obust arguments on economic and moral grounds. |