Legal immigrants not eligible.

Campus Reform reports.

UC system allots $5M in financial aid to illegals, legal immigrants not eligible

The University of California (UC) announced Thursday in a press release that it has officially allotted the first $5 million in loans for distribution to illegal immigrant students through the California DREAM Act.

Approximately 3,500 illegal students in the UC system will be granted financial aid this year though the 2014 bill, which will serve students at all nine UC campuses.

UC president Janet Napolitano called the DREAM program an investment for the students, the state, and nation as a whole. Students residing in the U.S. illegally in California are eligible for state and UC aid, but not federal aid.

“This new program will reduce that gap,” Napolitano said in Thursday’s press release. “It will help even the playing field for undocumented students struggling to make ends meet.”