Advocates were honored for their work leading to the passage of Prop 308, which grants undocumented students in Arizona the rights to in-state tuition, financial aid and other benefits.
PHOENIX — An Arizona nonprofit was honored here Tuesday for its push to win in-state tuition for undocumented students, a change that organizers said has moved the state from an “epicenter of hate toward immigrants into an epicenter of hope.”
Before presenting the public service award to Montoya, UnidosUS board member Maria Harper-Marinick praised Aliento’s advocacy work, which she said will change “the lives of about 2,000 students every single year and countless lives moving forward.” The proposition reversed part of a 2006 law – Proposition 300, also passed by voters – that denied in-state tuition along with a range of other benefits to undocumented residents of the state.
Tyler Montague, the chairman of Yes on 308, considers himself a “lifelong Republican” and said that breaking down the proposition to voters was essential in gathering support. “They are an organization that is all about the end results, and it’s not necessarily like a political organization,” Pacheco said. “A lot of the immigrant-rights organizations and even local organizations, they do tend to be a little bit more political. And when they’re more political then they lose the ability to work across the aisle.”
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