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On 31 January 2019, junk news site Neon Nettle published an article under the headline that Democrats Pass Bill to Fund College for Illegal Immigrants with Taxpayer Money. Although the article contained a sub-headline that specified the law only applied in New York, some readers were left with the wrong impression after only viewing only the main headline: It was indeed a New York state bill that made tuition assistance available to undocumented high school students in that state alone. The effort followed Democrats' winning a majority of seats in the New York legislature in the 2018 midterm elections, giving that party control of the governor's office and both chambers of the legislature for the first time in a decade. Those lawmakers approved the state's own version of the DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act in a vote that followed party lines. Although the name of the New York law echoes a federal bill that has languished in the U.S. Congress in one version or another since 2001, New York's DREAM Act doesn't provide a path to citizenship. Instead, it allows undocumented high school students to qualify for in-state, college-tuition assistance to public universities and community colleges, providing them access [to] the same in-state scholarships and financial aid available to U.S. citizens: In order to qualify for assistance, undocumented students must meet the following requirements: New York governor Andrew Cuomo anticipated the assistance program would cost $27 million (0.015%) of the state's $175 billion overall budget. New York joined two other states who recently enacted similar legislation that allows undocumented students to qualify for financial aid. In 2017 and 2018 respectively, California and New Jersey launched their own in-state versions of the DREAM Act. In May 2018. NJ.com reports:
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