Immigrant students and their supporters came to Annapolis Tuesday to witness Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) sign into law S.B. 167–legislation granting in-state tuition to immigrant students regardless of their legal status.
Tuesday night Help Save Maryland and NumbersUSA plan a petition signing and outreach in Rockville from 7 pm. Until 9 p.m. The groups hope to put the in-state tuition issue on the ballot for voters around the state to decide in the next election.
Proponents must gather 18,500 valid signatures by the end of May and about 58,000 valid signatures by the end of June, according to NumbersUSA. Since some signatures are typically ruled invalid, the real goals are 35,000 by May 31st and 100,000 by June 30th. Since no funding sources are underwriting the effort, petition organizers are relying on volunteers to circulate petitions among family, friends and community organizations.
Twenty-five hundred miles to the west, Police in Utah were given the authority to check the citizenship status of anyone they arrest. A U.S. district court has a hearing scheduled later in the day in which some or all of the law could be stopped.
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