Immigrant students stage sit-in at Lowell senator’s office

STATE HOUSE — Wearing mortarboards and carrying SAT prep books, members of a student immigrant group camped out in Sen. Eileen Donoghue's office on Thursday in hopes of urging the Lowell Democrat to back legislation that would allow undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates at public colleges in Massachusetts.
Five undocumented immigrant students who said they'd been in Donoghue's office for about over 20 minutes left around 1:30 p.m. after state troopers were called and entered the office.