Long Beach businessman Randal Hernandez has become the fourth member of the state community colleges board to step down in the year since the panel angered Republican lawmakers by endorsing legislation giving illegal immigrants access to student financial aid… Sen. Jim Battin (R-La Quinta), vice chairman of the committee, confirmed Wednesday that he had told Hernandez that he and other Republican lawmakers had concerns about the college board’s unanimous vote in 2007 to endorse provisions of the proposed state "Dream Act."

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by Patrick McGreevy, The Los Angeles Times.

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