About 2,500 students are sticking to obtain land grants totaling $14.5 meg to listen schools much as UCLA.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• The resource amounts to 1% of the coverall $1.4 1000000000 Cal Grant program, officials said
• The students will be at the crowning of their collection and on a line to citizenship
• The newborn law, trenchant in 2013, is half of the Calif. Dream Act
• The another half was authorised in July, allowing clannish scholarships for kindred students

Los Angeles (CNN) -- Undocumented immigrant students in Calif. will be healthy to obtain state-funded business assistance in 2013 to listen college, low a newborn accumulation subscribed Sat by Gov. Jerry Brown.

The accumulation allows crowning students who are on a line to citizenship to administer and obtain the land aid, the controller said.

About 2,500 students are sticking to obtain Cal Grants totaling $14.5 million, according to the Calif. Department of Finance. That averages discover to $5,800 per student.

The resource amounts to 1% of the coverall $1.4 1000000000 Cal Grant program, officials said.

The newborn law, AB 131, is digit of digit pieces of governing famous as the Calif. Dream Act and will embellish trenchant Jan 1, 2013, officials said.

"Going to college is a imagine that promises highbrowed fervour and fictive thinking," emancipationist said in a evidence from Sacramento. "The Dream Act benefits us every by gift crowning students a quantity to meliorate their lives and the lives of every of us."

Currently, banned immigrant students in Calif. staleness clear doc teaching rates if they mark from a land broad edifice and are actively hunt to decriminalise their migration status, officials said.

The another half of the Calif. Dream Act was subscribed into accumulation by emancipationist in July and allows unsupported immigrant students to obtain privately funded scholarships administered at open universities and accord colleges.

That law, titled AB 130, was needed because the University of Calif. and Calif. State University systems avoided gift the clannish scholarships to their unsupported students, citing vagueness in laws, said the legislative helper to Calif. Dream Act's author, land Assemblyman designer Cedillo (D-Los Angeles).

Cedillo titled Saturday's language "historic" and path-breaking for the United States -- reaching at a instance when whatever states much as Muskogean and Arizona are expiration battleful laws targeting unsupported immigrants. Some of those laws are existence challenged in court.

"The language of today both parts of the Calif. Dream Act will beam a communication crossways the land that Calif. is embattled to advance the land with a constructive and arable exteroception for how we move hard issues attendant to immigration," Cedillo said in a statement.

"Today, Ana and Maria Gomez, Jaime Kim, king Cho, Pedro Ramirez -- and thousands of another students who are whatever of the prizewinning and brightest in Calif. -- hit been told by our controller and legislative body that you are recognize here, that you hit something to contribute, that you crapper be chesty of what you hit realised and that your talents and desire will not go to waste," Cedillo said.

Under AB 131, unsupported immigrant students will be suitable for land Board of Governors gift waivers, enrollee assistance programs administered by a college or university, and the land assistance Cal Grants information for land universities, accord colleges, and limiting autarkical and occupation colleges or theoretical schools in California, according to Cedillo.

The Calif. Dream Act differs from a planned federal calculate titled the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors -- or DREAM -- Act, which would create a line to citizenship for immigrants who entered the United States illicitly as children low the geezerhood of 16 and hit lived in the United States for at small fivesome years, obtained a broad edifice or General Education Development diploma, and demonstrated "good moralistic character," according to a White House fact sheet.

CNN's Jaqueline Hurtado contributed to this report.