
The number of young illegal immigrants in California applying for college financial aid has dropped more than 40 percent, reportedly amid fears of deportation under the Trump administration’s new crackdown. As of last Friday, the California Student Aid commission, which receives applications from students, said it had 19,768 new and renewed Dream Act applications compared with 34,162 during the same period last year, a drop of 42 percent, the San Jose Mercury News reported. Of that number, there were 8,600 new applications from high school seniors compared with 13,200 at the same time last year, the newspaper reported. “The numbers are really, really low,” Patti Colston, a spokeswoman for the …