California "Dream Act" approved for illegal immigrants

[The Northerner]

(Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on Monday a bill allowing illegal immigrants to receive privately funded scholarships to attend the state's public colleges and universities.

The bill, dubbed the California Dream Act, passed the state Legislature earlier this month and aims at helping illegal immigrants who have earned a high school diploma after attending at least three years of high school in the state.

"At the end of the day, if we're going to continue as a powerful, equal-opportunity society, we're going to have to invest in our people," Brown, a Democrat, said at the signing ceremony in the library of a Los Angeles community college.

The state law is named after a national bill introduced in Congress last year to give young, undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States for at least five years a path to citizenship through college or military service.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/25/us-usa-california-dream-idUSTRE76O6FV20110725

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Good for the CA Legislature, and Governor Brown!

Recommended.

[FrenchieCat]

2. That's my state!

And proud of it!

[Tikki]

3. This is great news....

Tikki

[pampango]

4. Nice to see another Democratic state approving a Dream Act while republican states

outdo each other impressing teabaggers with how tough they can be on immigrants. :)

[dkf]

5. What do they do with their degrees?

They can't legally work in the US.