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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers have opened the door to state-funded financial aid for immigrant college students who entered the United States illegally.

 

The state Assembly on Wednesday approved AB 131, part of the California Dream Act, on a 46-25 party line vote. It now goes to the Senate.

 

Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, a Los Angeles Democrat, has introduced similar legislation each year since 2005 only to see it vetoed by Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, made a campaign pledge last year to sign it.

 

The Assembly approved the other half of the package last month, allowing illegal immigrant students to receive private financial aid.

 

Critics say the bill would encourage more illegal immigration and cut the funding available for citizens.

 

(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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  • Shelly

    WHAT?! Aren’t we broke? Why are we GIVING money to the illegal immigrants? My kids that are here leagally are having a hard enough time getting grants.

  • Shelly

    Oops *legally*

  • http://garynarberes.wordpress.com garyninsac

    The world is totally upside down…What’s wrong is right and what’s right is wrong. Don’t make something of yourself, let the government pay your way through life.
    It is out of control! I really feel for the kids of today, what a hell of a world we are leaving for them. :(

  • studhoss

    Moonbeam should have vetoed the bill. Why should my tax money go to support illegal aliens?

  • ?

    With all the programs that are getting cut not to mention all the teachers getting pink slips and they want to give money to illegal immigrants?

  • tomanyalready

    Just bringing in more democratic votes. Welcome to Mexifornia.

  • John Betgeorge

    and theyre closing state parks like turlock and Railtown 1897 State Historic Park ..
    this is just madness! im tired of dems.

  • Kathy Shepherd

    What kind of message are we sending? Really? Dollars to fund illegal immigrants education….. The working class is struggling to send our children to college to get an education and were funding people that sneak over the border…..yes…its illegal to do that and we are rewarding them …..???? Sum Sing Wong Here !

  • bri

    OMG!!! stupid stupid move. We have legal citizens, kids that need help, and they want to spend state money giving it to non citizens! Hope LA and SF are happy now, but it cost the entire state, something looses, so they can pay for this. What part of illegal do they not understand

  • Albinon

    I have always said, Tax benefits for citizens only. Get a “Green” card, OK, I’ll let it slide. I’m just rich enough so My kids can’t qualify for those grants, yet they let poor broke “Illeagals” in? The CA State Legislature is only doig this for their sympathy votes they need next year. Not for us citizens.
    Recall them all!

  • Judy Kizziar

    THIS IS WRONG………………..AND YOU WILL BE VOTED OUT OF OFFICE BECAUSE OF THIS……………WE DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH MONEY FOR KIDS THAT WERE BORN HERE, AND NOW YOU WANT ILLEGALS TO GET THAT MONEY FOR SCHOOL? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? IF YOU WERE BORN HERE FINE, IF NOT GO BACK TO YOUR HOMELAND AND APPLY TO GET IN HERE LEGALLY.

  • Keith Langshaw

    Well, Since some of the legislators have taken leave of their sanity, It is time to start voting them out.

  • rd

    moonbeam has gone mad…hold on to your …

  • theendofamerica

    Keep voting for those Democrates !!

  • disgusted

    Somebody please explain how California will benefit from this act? This is not a California Dream Act, this is an Illegal Alien Dream Act and a California Nightmare. Governor Brown, you will loose my vote by signing AB 131

  • Bob

    Can we please have all the “progressives” in California open their eyes to this obvious purchase of votes by democrats.
    They provide services and public money to illegals and then reject laws that require identification to vote.
    This system needs to be illegal and the lawmakers that passed this need to be voted out and sent to prison for stealing from the taxpayers.

  • Dean

    Thankl you all you left wing communuists/progressive, and anarcist liberals for you anti-American votes that put Brown , Stienburg and all the other anti-American B##222@@ in congress

  • The_Truth

    Wonder if the state employee unions know that brown just ruined them?

  • Robert Brown

    Look at the voting log and RECALL every politition who voted for this.

  • Stew Padasso

    I would like to hear an arguement in favor of this bill. Please note that the vote on this bill was split along party lines.

  • Karen F

    Please! Make calls to your representatives!
    Save us from this idiocy. I hope that everyone of those **** in Sacramento gets voted out asap.
    They cannot see what’s wrong that my disabled veteran child cannot get grants – only loans – but taking OUR TAXES to pay for illegal aliens (why is it that liberals can’t actually say the real words?) is so wrong , I just want to explode!

  • Jeanne

    I’m so sick of my hard-earned money going to people who aren’t even in this country legally. I don’t understand the “reward the illegals” mentality. My kids can’t qualify for aid because they’re CITIZENS, and there’s not enough money to support education or law enforcement, etc….but give it freely to those who don’t pay taxes in the first place. Unbelievable and frustrating!

  • kirk

    It just makes you shake your head and ask if we are not the dumbest country. These law makers have to treat the state like they would their home. They arenot letting people move in just becasue they have a nicer house than the one they came from.

  • dragonfly

    Governor Brown and all of our Assemblyman and women need to have phone calls reminding them that they will be voted out for this invasion law! Our children ( of legal citizens) deserve these funds and illegals should never be rewarded with benefits they have not payed into legally! This is an outrage!! The 20 million illegals have already drained us, now you want to produce a law that only assist them in this? There are people in war torn lands that have not only payed and filed their paperwork the legal way, they are still waiting, some over 10 years! But the ones that can come through Mexico can reap all from us? This makes me wonder if our law makers are doing this to line American politicians pockets with the money they save in cheap Mexican oil!

  • Richard

    8 years later I am still paying backs loans I borrowed to send my children through college. Something is not right here??????

  • Joseph

    You’ve got to be kidding. They’ve layed off Fireman and Police and closed Pulblic places but we’ll pay for an illegal to go to college? That makes no sense to me at all. Oh, but a white 18 year old boy with good (not great) grades can’t get this aide? That is outrageous.

  • Linda

    Time for me to consider moving to another State!!! It does not pay to be a hard working AMERICAN in the state of California!! Only hope is that it won’t pass the Senate!

  • Chris

    Now I know their can be no higher priority than voting on election day. I work 60 hours a week to send my kid to JC college because we did not qualify for any grants. And now I read this. What is the matter with our politicians ? It is like they are delusional to what is right, and wrong. We have to vote out peolple that make these kind of delusional policies.I am not angry because I cannot get aid, I am angry because I am paying for someone else’s education while my son’s education suffers. How bout I pay for mine and everyone else pays for theirs.

  • John Galt

    Let me get this straight, I work for and earn money, yet I’m not entitled to it – Some illegal alien has a higher claim to that money for their kids’ education than do I. Not only do I get to send my kids to college with zero, nada, no financial aid, I get to send theirs too.

    Head shake. How does this possibly make any sense to any elected official of any political stripe?

  • againstIllegalAlienCriminals

    This is the type of illegal alien criminal our corrupt California State politicians want to give free educations to:

    http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/06/01/assembly-oks-state-grants-for-immigrant-students/

    Call and complain to your legislature and governor.

    Our California politicians are on their way to giving free education to these illegal alien criminals.

  • againstIllegalAlienCriminals
  • william snow

    I agree with most of the people who post on this subject dealing with illegal immigrants (i e) the ones who sneak in across the river seperating mexico and the u. s. Calofornia is nothing but a state whose politions suck up to the rich, the welfare generations notice I said plural and the illegal immigrants in simple language, wet backs. to be an american in california is just a way of saying you have no rights. when I go to mcdonalds no one speaks english let alone understand it. where do us americans born and raised here fit in?

  • Tracy

    What part of ILLEGAL is so hard for the idiots at the capitol to understand??? Stop laying off and furloughing hard working people only to give money away to people that don’t deserve it!!!!

  • Ironic

    I have a relative that is a natural born Hawaiian American U.S. citizen that moved to California from Hawaii. He is trying to enroll in a California college and the college won’t allow him to enroll unless he can prove that he has been a resident of California for the past two years.

    Now the State of California will allow illegal alien criminals to obtain taxpayer money, to pay their way through college, even though they are not legal citizens of any U.S. state.

    U.S. citizens are now second class citizens in their own country (with less rights and benefits than illegal aliens) and illegal aliens are the new elite class.

  • chris

    what is his email address and phone number we need to post it

  • Mark Wilson

    wth is up with this so called system …..have a kid here and your a citizen get here and get a drivers license and now get free education when real citizens cant even think about getting grants…..impeach any who vote for this! ! ! ! ! absolute bull s**t

  • Frustrated

    I am so tired of hearing how illegals are given so many rights. My kids are american born citizens and they can’t get finacial assistance. So now I not only have to pay for my kids tuition, but my taxes have to pay for illegals to get financial aid. Some of the illegals make more moneyy than I do but don’t have to report it because its paid under the table. Yet, I do the right thing and have to struggle to make ends meet and help my American born children get an education while others who shouldn’t be here, are getting an education for free. Not fair, not right, and should not be legal.

  • Mark Wilson

    Im thinking of moving to Arizona …..

  • Kado

    Whose running the capital? This is bull. Can’t even afford citizens going to school now they want to pay for illegals going too school, they need to stop them in grade school without paying for it out their own pocket not the other way around. My kids almost had to go to a elementary school miles away because of overcrowding at current school. After I called the district and demanded these illegals kids better transfer too another school or ICE will be on campus first thing Monday. Let’s just say it worked. Call your representors and demand a no vote and/or repeal ASAP

  • Yvonne Travers

    Liberals/Democrats control California. Should any of this come as a surprise to you???!!!

  • kathy

    THIS IS INSANITY!!! Our govenor and our politicians are INSANE!
    My son is struggling horribly to afford college….so what does this state do…Make it easier on those that should be DEPORTED…and give my son nothing to help him….he was born here though….thats a mark against him it seems in this stupid state!
    Make sure to remember those who voted yes to this and VOTE THEM OUT WHENEVER POSSIBLE!!!!!

  • Jack Anderson

    AB131 YOUR KIDDING, RIGHT? THIS IS GOVERMENT OUTRADGIOUSLY OUT OF CONTROL.

  • steve

    WE ARE DONE FOR !!!

  • MoreChange4u

    And everyone seems so surprised. This is change you can believe in. I can’t afford college, can barely afford food, can’t afford rent, can barely pay my utilities…but I do work 80 hours a week with three jobs trying mybest to pay my way, and to pay my taxes so the illegals can have a free ride. Things are changing all right, but you can keep your change. Vote for the conservative party next election, they will fix this state and put us back on a path to prosperity. And…for the record, Arnold was not a conservative.

  • JC

    Hell, I didnt even know there were state-funded college tuition aid. When I finished college here in CA, I was never told nor introduced to state aid. I had to take out outrageous Salie Mae loans (Fed and Private) and now it’ll take me 10+ years to pay it all back (thanks to the 2 years of unemployment after graduation which was all intrest). Jesus and now that I have a job finally I have to help pay for illegals to go to college? NO WAY JOSE!

  • John

    Who are the boobs who approve this nonsense? Shouldn’t every politician in California be aware that we’re in the midst of the biggest financial crisis in the state’s history?! And we want to go ahead and approve the spending of even more money?! For people who aren’t even Californians?! Why not spend the money to send CALIFORNIANS to college?? Complete idiocy!! And exactly WHERE is this money coming from–certainly not the 46 boobs who approved it!!!

  • The_Truth

    TC go Read it again, they already have private finacial aid, this new law gives them public financial aid.

  • Charles A.

    BS.

  • Mark Wilson

    Wow, Tracy you must be a state employee or have ties to one with that comment….If you want to gripe about having to take a couple of furlough days off a month why dont you just quit and go find another job that will put up with your complaining butt…..and give you the benefits you now get from the state…..How bout this …you give up a couple more paid days a year so our state financial situation will improve… or if not myself or many other thousands of people would be more than happy to have your job (with no complaints) and probably do a better job …. improving the morale throughout the state system…..So dont even bring up furlough ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

  • Ken Z

    For a state that is bankrupt in every sense of the word all I have to say is go politicans. Live in reality not fantasy land. It’s time to grow up alright!!
    I am a 5th generation Californian who is disgusted at these politicans.
    Why are they elected???

  • J

    I know–I got those same outrageous loans, lost my job and was unemployed for 13 months and the interest skyrocketed. I’ve been paying heavily on my loans for 12 years now, and haven’t even paid down half! I guess you have to be an illegal to get state funding–certainly not a native Californian!!!

  • Tom

    A CIVIL WAR IS COMMING AMERICANS WE CAN NOT ALLOW THIS ANY MORE boot are current goverment they are giving America away please do something America lady liberty is dieing from goverment cancer we need to take this country back they work for us people CHAAARGE !

  • PLW

    California is going broke and our elite self-serving representatives are financing illegals to a college education. They cannot pass a budget, but they can help illegals. What part of illegal do they not understand? If it was not so sad, it would be funny. They ought to be voted out of office. If not, then California is lost!

  • BARBARA

    HOW DO WE GET A BILL PASSED LIKE ARIZONA DID?????? I AM FOR IT 100%

  • BARBARA

    BROWN DOES NOT DESERVCE THE POSITION HE HAS ….RECALL HIM…. HE DID NOT HAVE MANY MARBLES WHEN HE WAS VOTED IN (I DID NOT VOTE FOR HIM) NOW HE HAS GONE AND LOST WHAT HE DID HAVE, THERE IS JUST A BLACK EMPTY SPACE THIER NOW FILLED WITH DREAMS OF LAYING ON THE BEACH IN MEXICO……………..THE COMMENT REQUIRES NAME OR E-MAIL – TRY JUST ONE IT WILL NOT ACCEPT

  • sacramentan

    For those looking to end your life please take one of these stupid politician with you.

  • David

    I have a single hard working mother of three who sits next to me at work. She applied for every college education fund and grant available for her straight A student son to go to college. They are all American citizens, and got NOTHING, no help, no grants, no loans. Now this????? If she and here children were illigal aliens and she was not working, she could qualify???

    AND THE STATE IS BROKE????

  • Robert Brown

    I see a recall if Jerry signs this

  • Stew Padasso

    Mark, you must be lazy and unemployed with that comment….You totally missed Tracy’s point. Get a government job (or any job) and stop hating the working people.

  • TRUE AMERICANS

    OUR GOVERNMENT HAS GONE TOO FAR… I SAY NO!!! IT IS TIME AMERICANS TAKE AMERICA BACK FOR AMERICANS AND BOOST THEM ALL OUT … MAKES ONE WONDER HOW MANY MEXICAN DECENT ARE ON THE ASSEMBLY???? FIRST POT NOW FREE MONEY TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTES???? IF AMERICANS DO NOT STOP THIS AND OTHER CRAZY LAWS WE WILL BE IN THE SAME POSITION MEXICO IS

  • Fred

    No, you are correct – Arnold was just a wanna be Kennedy

  • Jeremy

    Nice! Let’s give them more reason to come across the border and pop out one kid after another, after another, etc., at the expense of students legally here. No wonder the state is going bust. We give immigrants WAY too many incentives to violate federal law.

  • Fred

    Same boobs that want to get the mexicans to vote them into office. Data recently released shows that the single largest ethnic segment of CA is hispanic. Apparently Mexico has taken California back from the US

  • Jeremy

    I’m with you on the recall 100%. I never trusted Moonbeam when he was elected last year!

  • owell

    And we helped these brown Roaches, By allowing and paying for the mass breeding.

  • Shelly

    Wait, I just had a thought….what if it’s a trap? Illegal immigrants apply for the aid, then they deport them when they catch them! I know, wishful thinking…

  • ron

    We can’t even get our kids Educated, Let alone Educate these Brown illegal leaches. What a fking joke!!

  • NEIGHBOR1234

    I never thought I would see the day that California has given back this once great state to Mexico. I have talked about for years and now I see it. Brown just cut over 300 DOC positions and he does this ” state-funded financial aid for immigrant college students who entered the United States illegally” …. ILLEGALLY ????????? How can this happen ? Come on fellow Californians …. stand up and recall this joke of a leader of this state. We have to do something. California has no money for Prisons or Prison Officers, Cal Fire, Parks, Roads, but they have enough for ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ?

  • owell
  • Charlie

    STOP VOTING FOR THE DEMOCRATS!!

  • ron
  • ron

    When will people put their balls on, And realize how serious this is!

  • phill

    So what time is everyone showing up to the capitol to protest? I am tired of our politicians bending over for these illegals. they can take that dream act and shove it so far up brown’ and Obama’s rear end.

  • Legal 1

    More American workers paying for the future of more illegal garbage.

  • james

    We’ve been sold out to Roaches!

  • JC

    lol we could ONLY wish that was the case. And what a great sting that would be!

  • james

    Man..You got that right, We’ve been sold out. And all of our dead soldiers are rolling over in their graves!!! ROACHES MUST GO!!!!

  • johnmunyer

    This does NOT reflect what I want

  • JJ

    Why is it illegals can get the grants but children of US citizens cant get the same financial aid. My husband made $4,000 a year more last year and our child’s fiancial aid was cut down to almost nothing even on a Parent Plus Loan which we have to pay back. No wonder people are getting fed up with the system.

  • Darrell S

    Those who voted these politicians into office are forcing their stupidity on the rest of us. Those voters should be barred from voting on the basis of stupidity.

  • Rob

    What a slap in the face! I’m a citizen of the U.S. (born here, thank you) and I can’t get a grant. I have to take out loans that I must repay once I graduate. These people enter the U.S. illegally and they get the grants? Furthermore, the State of California is in a budget crisis and these idiots are voting to give money away to someone who isn’t even a citizen? Where is this money coming from? When do I get my share? I want my piece of the pie!!!

  • james

    My Children and i are giving up U.S Citizen status . We have decided that everyone wants to cater to non Americans (roachleaches) instead of Taxpayers with Morals.So we want to become illegal ex American Roaches. We want law makers to stick their noses up our azzes and feed /Educate us!

  • claire

    Illegals vote so democrates cater to them. Illegals should not get to vote or receive grant money when tax aying citizens do not get the same levels of benefits. I got ZERO money from grants when I went to college, took out loans and WORKED.

  • NEIGHOR1234

    Mark … Get a clue. Tracy is right on what she has said. No matter if she works for the state or not.

  • NEIGHOR1234

    My wife and I are considering Idaho

  • NEIGHBOR1234

    Awesome Kado…… I would have called anyway.

  • james

    You really think an illegal Alien (roach) Is going to get an Education ? They are here for just a few reasons

    1. A free hand out
    2. An all expenses paid of 5 Children
    3.To ruin America

  • owell

    If somethings not done this time, Than you can expect these types of headlines. They really have nothing to lose!

    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7590335.html

  • Jim

    This is why the people are leaving this state. Its ridiculous, more entitlement. Average kids cannot get into schools or go broke trying. When we looked at schools for our daughter most where out of state either in Nevada or North Carolina. This helps explain the exodus of jobs and working class.

  • skip gainer

    We are broke and can not help our own people in this country but yet we can give illegal aliens free education, subsides ,housing,,food stamps and free medical. And they say breaking the law does not pay, it does in America!

  • Tom

    Hey Jim I had to send my 4.0 student out of state the big thing the my child has against her is she white she American and smart her freind who’s parents make the same money as my wife and I who are asian and black have received all kinds of free money with the kids having a C average if this isn’t reverse discrimanation . WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF AMERICANS FIRST RECAAAALL ! all of them from Brown Down

  • Michael Evans

    Oh yes, let’s keep the TEMPORARY tax hikes FOREVER just to keep giveing aid to illegals who by law should have NO HELP from Calif. taxpayers and instead should be arrested and deported.
    You take my taxes, at least give ME the added beneifits including using these funds to round up and deport these criminals

  • Tom

    You need to know dragonfly that they still get paid when voted out so it dosen’t matter if they get fired they still receive a check NICE TO KNOW ISN’T IT when we loose are jobs no moe money

  • Tom

    you are correct this is why we need to take this state and are tax money back from the state CROOKS

  • Tom

    This is why we need to take our country back

  • rick

    - Jose Angel Gutierrez,
    Professor, University of Texas, Arlington
    Founder of the La Raza Unida political party

    “We have an aging white America.
    They are not making babies. They are dying.
    The explosion is in our population . . .
    They are shi##ing in their pants with fear…I love it.
    We have got to eliminate the gringo,
    and what I mean by that is,
    if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him

  • Sandy

    I did a google search and can not find ANY information AGAINST this! I am hoping I am not typing it in properly. Someone please tell me WHERE I can find something against this; a protest, a letter to the assembly saying he11 no?? All I could find was FOR the so called ‘dream’ act. It just sickens me that it could pass.

  • Primetime Editorials

    i hope this lowers crime
    http://ethicalfutures.wordpress.com/

  • luvcritters

    When will Californians stop electing politicians who vote for this stuff?

  • 1PAB1

    That’s Gil Cedillo and the Latino Caucus for you. First they passed the private funding bill, they also said that it woul not cost the taxpayers a dime, then they quietly pass this other bill which does use taxpayer’s money.
    Channel 13 is the only news channel to cover this one. Actually, even the Sac Bee had nothing on this bill.

  • Sheila Volek

    The headlines of this article reads ASSEMBLY OKS STATE GRANTS FOR IMMIGRANT STUDENTS…..then in the 1st paragraph it states it is for those who entered the country illegally……..an immigrant is one who enters a country LEGALLY……like those who came through Ellis Island…..LEGALLY….to use the term for ILLEGALS is a travesty of justice……..DREAM ACT for illegals….NIGHTMARE for American citizens….regardless of their ethnic background…….hopefully the Senate has the balls to strike this down…..

  • Sheila Volek

    Me too…..

  • Sheila Volek

    The bleeding hearts would never allow that,,,UNFORTUNATELY

  • Sheila Volek

    Won’t make a difference…..LaRaza has control of this state….

  • lush rimbaugh

    Recall and bring back Arnold Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • W.Y.

    How sad. Wonder how we got in this financial mess in the first place. It’s like we are rolling in money. MY TAX DOLLARS SHOULDN’T BE USE TO FUND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!!!

  • HP

    Even the title of this article speaks to the problem so many people have. Immigrants are NOT the problem. Illegal Immigrants are. They have preference over legal citizens and legal immigrants for lower cost, publicly funded tuition.

  • dan

    what is this some Joke ? lets let more cop go so we can give all are money away are tax dollars should not go for this
    Wonder how we got in this financial mess in the first place

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