PRESCOTT, Ariz. – An Arizona college is imposing a new $30 fee for all students that will go toward a scholarship fund for illegal immigrant students.

Prescott College announced the scholarship in conjunction with a national “Coming Out Day” for undocumented students on Thursday organized by “United We Dream,” the Prescott News reports.

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The mandatory $30 fee will be imposed on all on-campus students, and will go into a Freedom Education Fund that will a scholarship for one illegal immigrant student in the 2016-17 school year.

“This is the first time a four-year college in Arizona has implemented such a fee, and only the second in the country to do so,” the news site reports. “The fee was a student led initiative with collaboration between undergraduate and Social Justice and Human Rights Master of Arts students, community members, and faculty members.”

Graduate student Miriel Manning, who helped organize the effort, told ABC 15 more than half of students at the private school signed a petition calling for the fee, but acknowledged that not all students think it’s a good idea.

“It’s a challenging conversation sometimes with students,” Manning said. “Overall, I’m really impressed by the way we’ve come together.”

Prescott College President John Flicker applauded the school’s “scholar activists,” though he said the money raised by the fee likely won’t be enough to cover the scholarship.

“I am proud that our students take on the role of scholar activists. The passion around this issue really motivated our part to make up the difference between what the fee will provide for and the full cost to attend one of our programs,” he said. “We’re committed to broaden access to higher education for a diverse group of students and mobilize our resources toward social justice.”

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In a Freedom Education Fund letter, Manning wrote that the scholarship “can be a turning point for students struggling to see a future beyond high school.

“The 2015 Arizona State Education Statistical Report shows a dropout rate for the overall state of 3.46% and for Hispanic/Latino students in Arizona of 4.8%, which are unacceptable numbers,” Manning wrote. “We believe creating access for our migrant students to higher education can significantly reduce the dropout rate within our local school system of the Tri-city Prescott area. Through these small but powerful changes, students in the area join a national effort.”

But not all Arizona residents, or college students, are quite so thrilled with the mandatory fee going to folks who came to the country illegally.

“I am an Arizona student and I am insulted by this fund. Here is the basic fact. They are undocumented, illegal. So, in fact they are criminals. They do not have rights of citizens and definitely should NOT get funding to go to school. That is the most outrageous idea you have come up with,” Bryant Tracy posted to the Prescott News.

“Those of us who became citizens the legal way are truly disgusted by this idea. We worked hard to get where we are and they should have to do the same. They aren’t citizens. Now I am and I am tired of illegals whining about their circumstances. If you want to be in the United States do things legally. If you don’t then leave. And don’t penalize the rest of us by charging mandatory $30.00 fees because you broke the law and others feel sorry for you.”

Amanda Jones agrees with Tracy.

“This is absolutely ridiculous. Why should these students get even MORE for free? They already got grades kindergarten through 12th grade for free since the majority of their illegal alien parents don’t pay income taxes. At best the “scholarship” should cover the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition,” Jones posted.

“Why should tax paying parents who have paid taxes for 18 years of their childrens’ lives now be forced to pay a mandatory fee to provide free schooling for another child, and of course still pay for their own child as well? If people want to contribute, have at it. If they don’t, they shouldn’t have to. Unreal. What should we give out for free next? I shudder to think.”