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Legislation to give illegal immigrants instate tuition rates has Hispanic students rallying at the state capitol.

Today several students brought to Florida while they were toddlers and later graduated from Florida schools held signs outside the Senate chamber. Evelyn Rivera moved here from Columbia when she was three. She graduated high school in 2007. She can’t afford to take more than a couple of classes a semester.

“I should have finished my undergrad in 2011, but because of having to save up money and only being able to take three classes at a time, or one class at a time, I’ve just got to the point were I’m a sophomore,” said Rivera.

The students are facing an uphill battle. A similar bill that would have provided instate tuition to US citizens whose parents are illegal died in a senate committee last week. The students are vowing to stick it out till the end of session.