After a surprising vote on Monday, the Senate of the state of New York rejected the Dream Act, a legislative project that would provide financial help for immigrant youths that illegally live in the country so they can go through college.
With a Republican majority, the New York Senate did not manage to get the 32 votes in favor needed to approve the measure, which had a total of 30 votes in favor and 29 against, according to the NBC.
In this manner, one of the main platforms destined to support young immigrants in the United States, the "Dreamers" has been stopped in what many have described as a defeat for democrats in the state.
"It's a shame that they wouldn't bring the support for equal access to superior education and an investment in New York's future," considered Antonio Alarcón, leader of Make the Road, member of the national committee of United We Dream and a student of LaGuardia Community College, according to the NBC.
The voting which took place on Monday, March 17, all the republicans in the Senate voted against the measure, while two democrats, Simcha Felder of Brooklyn and Ted O'Brien of Rochester, also voted against the measure, to the surprise of activists who planned to celebrate the eventual approval of the Dream Act in New York.
The Dream Act, a legislative project approved last month by the New York State Assembly, with a democrat majority, sought to become another measures provided by four US states, California, New Mexico, Texas and Washington, which offer financial help for undocumented immigrant students, according to The New York Times.
The measure took its name from a federal measure promoted by President Obama to offer citizenship to immigrant youths who entered the country illegally when they were children.
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