SALT LAKE CITY?Proposed legislation would make it easier for children of undocumented immigrants to earn a college degree.

The bill would allow high school graduates who have lived in Utah at least three years to pay tuition at the significantly lower in-state rates.

Rep. David Ure, R-Kamas, plans to introduce the measure during the legislative session that begins Jan. 21.

“If illegal aliens have a desire to further improve themselves,” Ure said, “we ought to accommodate them the best we can.”

“It’s hard to know when that gate should open or close since our ancestors, at least mine, were ‘aliens,'” he said.