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Hispanic students who came to Florida as teenagers are asking lawmakers for instate college tuition.

They were in the state capitol today supporting a bill that would allow anyone who attended three years in a Florida public school to pay instate tuition. Estaban Roncancio was brought to Florida by his parents when he was 14. He graduated from a Miami high school but had to sit out a year to earn money to cover out-of-state tuition to Miami-Dade College.

“I had to wait a whole year because I didn’t have any money to go to school. So I had to save money to be able to pay 5-thouand dollars a semester at community college,” said Estaban.

The instate college tuition bill has yet to receive a committee hearing.