Posted on 7/21/2007, 1:43:12 PM by truthkeeper
Utah legislators frustrated by illegal immigration are finished being nice - they're sending a strongly worded letter to the feds.
Armed with a legislative audit estimating the cost of educating undocumented immigrants, members of the Education Interim Committee voted Wednesday to send the audit to Utah's congressional delegation and the U.S. departments of Immigration and Education.
An accompanying letter will request "reimbursement to the state from the federal government of costs resulting from their failed immigration policy."
"I doubt they'll pay it," said Rep. Steve Urquhart, R-St. George, who made the motion to send the letter. "But I think it's important that they hear from the state."
The audit, which was released in May, estimated Utah spends between $63 million and $98 million educating undocumented immigrants. Its narrow scope considered neither the U.S. citizen children of undocumented immigrants nor the taxes contributed by such workers.
The audit estimated costs to educate undocumented immigrants by roughly estimating their numbers - somewhere between 11,000 and 17,000 - and figuring the state spends the per-pupil average, plus low-income and English-language learner funds on them.
Democratic Reps. Carol Spackman-Moss of Holladay and Mark Wheatley of Murray, and Sen. Ross Romero, D-Salt Lake City, voted against the motion.
But as you read articles like this, you can’t help but notice how fast the tide of public opinion is turning against illegal immigrants. Those parades last year, waving the Mexican flags, may turn out to be one of the stupidest things ever done by the pro-illegal lobby
According to one Mexican govt. minister in an LATimes article some months ago, ‘The US is integrating with Mexico and there’s nothing you can do about it’. The alternative to absorbing their unwanted citizenry, according to their last President, Fox, was that the US simply pay for rebuilding Mexico’s infrastructure. Soup to nuts, everything, including the kitchen sink.
Good for the state of Utah! I hope the shoe starts pinching enough that more states will call attention to this—hopefully in a more meaningful way.
While we are on the subject of How Much It Costs to Teach, it is time for full disclosure on the cost of public education. In the Washington, DC public school district it costs in excess of $1 million to graduate a single student who is proficient at his grade level in math. Even so, the only “solution” is to spend more money.
If those who are clamoring for a “new direction” and “new thinking” and a “new plan” in Iraq would turn their attention similarly for a new approach to child education, we could have what is the only viable solution: letting the customer decide where to have their children educated, a solution made possible by vouchers.
Those Mormons sure know how to deal with it. California is lost to the illegals I’m afraid.
Yeah, I know.
That will fire a shot across the bows!
Look for the Feds to take swift and decisive action any moment now. chirp.... chirp...
LOL...mind-reader.
Everywhere Hillary and Edwards go, they should be quizzed about how to pay for illegals (and legals also).
ALL the candidates should be quizzed about it!
The fact that we have a pro illegal lobby burns my buns!!!
Jorge’ does not care how much it costs, it’s not his money.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I guess I see this in a different light. I spent six months at the beginning of 2005 in Utah, and my experience was that they catered to illegal aliens. I think that businessmen there wanted illegals to do the tough dirty work, and didn't mind third-partying the costs of them on to society.
Now, here's the Utah government asking the Feds to bail them out financially on the costs. Just my view, from my perspective...
1) I’ve never been there. So I have no perspective except from the article. You could certainly be accurate.
2) I don’t want the Federal government to bail anyone out. I want the Federal government to put an end to the situation that’s been created.
I’m with you, on number two!
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