Hunt to keep advocating bill on immigrant tuition: Ex-governor cites economic advantages

From today's Winston-Salem Journal:

Former Gov. Jim Hunt and Hispanic activists vowed yesterday to keep pushing a bill to let children of illegal immigrants pay in-state tuition at state universities and community colleges, even though it has little chance of passage this year.

"We're going to keep working until we get it done. They will not outlast us," Hunt told more than 200 people at a luncheon sponsored by N.C. Policy Watch and El Pueblo, a Hispanic advocacy group. "I'm here because access to higher education is critically important to everyone."