Assemblyman Marc W. Butler, R-Newport, voted no on legislation known as the DREAM Act, which would provide taxpayer-funded tuition assistance to illegal immigrants.

Butler’s 118th Assembly District includes St. Lawrence County towns from Norfolk and Madrid south to Colton, Clifton and Fine.

“Upstate middle-class students and their families are facing a nightmare when trying to pay for higher education,” Butler said.

“Progressive Assembly Democrats have zero regard for how this will impact the cost of education and the availability of tuition assistance, which is already spread thin in this state. New York taxpayers simply cannot afford to pay for the college educations of illegal immigrants when they can barely afford it for their own children.”