Just 39% support the measure.



The opposition has actually grown since January, when 53% opposed it and 44% supported it.



Support for the DREAM Act is strongest among Democrats, Latinos and blacks.



But whites strongly oppose it by a 62% to 32% margin.



The timing of the poll is not good for DREAM Act supporters. The state Senate last week defeated a DREAM Act bill by two votes. And now supporters are pushing to include it in the upcoming state budget--a move so far opposed by the Senate Republicans.



At the same time they oppose the DREAM Act, a majority of New Yorkers support Gov. Cuomo's plan to use state money to fund college education courses for prison inmates. The poll found that 53% of voters support the plan while 43% oppose it.



In other issues, 47% of New Yorkers support making medical marijuana legal while just 31% back Cuomo's more limited plan to make pot available at 20 hospitals to the severely ill.



But 54% oppose the complete legalization of pot like in Colorado and Washington while 42% support it.



And a year after it was enacted, New Yorkers overwhelmingly support Cuomo's gun control law by a 63% to 32% margin.



The law is heavily supported in the city and suburbs, but upstate by a 52% to 45% margin is against it.



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