Undocumented immigrant students will be eligible for California aid

According to the article “Undocumented immigrant students will be eligible for California aid” by Michael Martinez, about 2,500 students are projected to receive state grants totaling $14.5 million to attend schools such as UCLA. We learned in class that according to the Roy Model, we would expect migrants to be more (less) skilled than the sending population if the ratio of the skilled-to-unskilled wages were higher (lower) in the destination country than the source. There are positive selections from most sending countries today. Undocumented immigrant students in California will be able to receive state-funded financial aid in 2013 to attend college, under a new law. The law allows top students who are on a path to citizenship to apply and receive the state aid, the governor said. The funding amounts to 1% of the overall $1.4 billion Cal Grant program. That law was needed because the University of California and California State University systems avoided giving the private scholarships to their undocumented students. This law is a “historic” and path-breaking for the United States, because at a time when many states such as Alabama and Arizona are passing aggressive laws targeting undocumented immigrants, and California is prepared to lead the country with a positive and productive vision for how we approach challenging issues related to immigration.

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http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/08/undocumented-immigrant-students-will-be-eligible-for-california-aid/