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College students who are unauthorized immigrants in the
state are already allowed to pay for their
Now, Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, took the measure a step further when he signed a bill into law Wednesday that would let some of those students be eligible for financial aid -- something Christie refused to go along with.
These students, who have to have applied to legalize their immigration status in to be eligible, could receive the aid as soon as this fall.
"This is the world's melting pot where people in every
part of the globe can come here in the hope of a new life," Murphy said,
celebrating the diversity at
State Sen. Teresa Ruiz -- a longtime
advocate for so-called Dreamers, immigrants brought illegally to the
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