California taxpayers are already stretched to the limit and there’s no relief in sight.

Merrill Hope of Breitbart reported.

CA May Give Student Loans to ‘Dreamers’

Weeks before the massive influx of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) from Mexico and Central America hit the U.S. southwestern border, California came one step closer to authorizing $9.2 million to fund undocumented students with college loans under the proposed California Dream Loan Program (SB 1210).

On May 28, the California state Senate pushed this pending legislation through by a vote of 26 to 11. Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Huntington Park/Long Beach) authored the bill with the intention to make it stick for the 2015-16 academic year.

The California Dream Loan Program would add a new funding stream for undocumented students’ higher education. Of the initial $9.2 million that the state would put aside for these loans, funding would break down with $2.3 million coming from the University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) systems and $6.9 million from state funds. That means higher resident tuition and higher taxes.

The controversial 2011 California Dream Act, signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown, allowed students who entered the country illegally and resided in California to receive college scholarships from private funders. Undocumented students in California are already exempt from paying Nonresidential Supplemental Tuition, allowing them to pay in-state tuition (AB 540).


 
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