Illegal Immigrants Cause Public School Crisis

Judicial Watch ^ | March 11, '08 | staff

[T.L.Sink]

While cities across the nation pass ordinances to seek relief from the devastating toll of illegal immigration, the nation's public school districts will continue suffering from the influx thanks to a federal law that says they must provide a free education to all children regardless of immigration status. There are an estimated 1.5 million school-aged illegal immigrants in the United States and the government spends an estimated $12 BILLION annually to educate them. The biggest chunks are spent by California ($7.7 billion) and Texas ($3.9 billion), where the situation has become a public education crisis with no end in sight. The Lone Star State's public schools have seen a huge increase in illegal immigrant Hispanic students with dismal Mexican and Central American education histories that are contributing to an overall lowering of academic standards across the board. Case in point: The Irving School District, located mostly in Dallas. It has suffered one of the nation's largest increases - 63% - of illegal immigrant students in the last year compared to a 33% increase in 1995.Mexican government statistics reveal that only 50% of Mexicans 15 and older have some elementary school education and working with them requires slowing down and teaching the very basics. Besides spending nearly $6,000 a year to educate each student, the districts also spend more than $1.5 million annually to pay bilingual teachers extra.

[T.L.Sink]

The situation grows worse daily and citizens are paying ever-increasing taxes for bankrupt school districts, prison and jail incarceration, social welfare services, insolvent hospitals and the horrible human and fiscal ravages of the drug cartel.

[yankeedame]

(I'm formatin' like the BBC...)

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While cities across the nation pass ordinances to seek relief from the devastating toll of illegal immigration, the nation's public school districts will continue suffering from the influx thanks to a federal law that says they must provide a free education to all children regardless of immigration status.

There are an estimated 1.5 million school-aged illegal immigrants in the United States and the government spends an estimated $12 BILLION annually to educate them.

The biggest chunks are spent by California ($7.7 billion) and Texas ($3.9 billion), where the situation has become a public education crisis with no end in sight.

The Lone Star State's public schools have seen a huge increase in illegal immigrant Hispanic students with dismal Mexican and Central American education histories that are contributing to an overall lowering of academic standards across the board. Case in point: The Irving School District, located mostly in Dallas.

It has suffered one of the nation's largest increases - 63% - of illegal immigrant students in the last year compared to a 33% increase in 1995.

Mexican government statistics reveal that only 50% of Mexicans 15 and older have some elementary school education and working with them requires slowing down and teaching the very basics.

Besides spending nearly $6,000 a year to educate each student, the districts also spend more than $1.5 million annually to pay bilingual teachers extra.

[Blue Turtle]

Who woulda thunk?

[pnh102]

I still have yet to figure out how any illegal alien can be a "legal resident" within any school district. Many public school systems routinely audit their student records to ensure that the students attending are lawful residents in the actual school district. Those who are not are kicked out.

This looks like yet another situation where illegals have more rights than legal US citizens/residents.

[Oldexpat]

That $7.7 billion is about half of CA’s current budget deficit. That probably doesn’t includ the busing to achieve racial diversity.
The schools have got to admit them, but the ICE can show up and bus them out. The parents would come and join them(in some cases).

[Clintonfatigued]

IMHO, they didn’t cause the public school crisis, but they certainly have exaserbated it.

[antiunion person]

Is this a new development for Judicial Watch?? Here in California and also in all the border states, the costs of educating illegals has been an ongoing problem for years. If, it won't happen, the feds would finally close the border and let the states take the time to straighten out their problems, this will never go way, just get worse. As long as we have presidential candidates like McCain, Osama, and Clinton who want to keep the borders open so they can get more votes, this problem will never go away. Hospitals in the southwest are being closed down due to lack of funds to pay for medical care for the illegals. Medical care they cannot refuse to give, no matter who the people are. Prisons in the southwest are overcrowded due to the point of exploding at the seams due to the illegals being incarcerated. Over 50 percent of the prisoners in our jails and prisons are illegal. Mexico's trash thrown over the border by their government.
A great way to at least get some money from the illegals is to tax or fee the money being sent to Mexico by Western Union. 15 percent of all money sent to outside countries would be a fair price for them to pay. Mexico's second highest revenue getter is illegals sending money to Mexico. We need to fix all this problems before this country turns into a third world sewer like Mexico.

[pnh102]

15 percent of all money sent to outside countries would be a fair price for them to pay.

Too low. I would start at 100% for any foreigner who cannot that he or she is not in the USA legally.

[SweetCaroline]

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[Wolfie]

It’s nice to see the Feds aiding and abetting a crime. Nothing new, of course.

[ga medic]

Public schools require that you live in the district. That is all. Illegals must also prove that they live in the district. Illegals do not have more rights that US citizens in this case. Both legal and illegal students must live within the boundaries of the school district to attend the district’s schools.

Schools are not allowed to reject illegals based upon their illegal status. This is a ruling by the Supreme Court.

[boilinghot]

People like GWBush, McPain, Kennedy, “the bitch”, Obama are never going to ask for the changes necessary to stem the problem. The action must come from the state and local communties.
I’ll repeat: TURN-OFF the spiggot of benefits that this country provides those who come to this country illegally, and you’ll begin the get a handle on the problem. Until that is accomplished everything else is pure poppycock!

[umgud]

These numbers probably don’t include anchor babies.

[gondramB]

>>There are an estimated 1.5 million school-aged illegal immigrants in the United States and the government spends an estimated $12 BILLION annually to educate them. The biggest chunks are spent by California ($7.7 billion) and Texas ($3.9 billion)<<

Something is wrong with their numbers. Those two (large) states spend $11.6 billion and the other 48 states only spend $0.4 billion?

It would seem the other states would spend more than that.

[oldbill]

In Prince William County Virginia, where a crackdown on illegals just started to take effect, 600 kids of illegals have left.

In Virginia, depending on whose figures you use, it caots $9000 a year to school a kid.

That’s a SAVINGS of $5,400,000 a year just in one county.

Guess what - the morons who want illegal aliens for their cheap labor and Democrat votes are now complaining that the loss means the schools will lose a lot of state and federal monies!

There must be a National Duh Award somewhere for these idiots.

[levotb]

T.L.

You forgot to mention the horrific price paid by Americans whose loved ones and family members have been killed by drunk driving illegals and those murdered by illegals—at least 25 per day, on average. That’s over 9,000 Americans killed every year by illegals, one way or another. IS THIS ACCEPTABLE??

http://www.rense.com/general76/12am.htm

Check it out.

[levotb]

And THAT is what must be overturned!! In the meantime, armed troops must be placed on the Border, the double fence funded AND interior enforcement by ICE doubled, tripled and quadrupled!

[levotb]

WRONG!! But your heart is in the right place, antiunion person! It should be a crime enforced by ICE and the FBI for Western Union to accept wiring money for illegals in the U.S. DID ANYONE EVER THINK OF SHUTTING OFF THE SPIGOT FROM WESTERN UNION?

[blaveda]

You are spot on here, also check out this legislation, which certainly infuriated me to no end!

McKinney-Vento Definition of “Homeless”

Subtitle B of Title VII of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (Title X, Part C, of the No Child Left Behind Act) defines “homeless” as follows:
The term “homeless children and youths”—

(A) means individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence (within the meaning of section 103(a)(1)); and

(B) includes—

(i) children and youths who are sharing the housing of other persons due to loss of housing, economic hardship, or a similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camping grounds due to the lack of alternative adequate accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; are abandoned in hospitals; or are awaiting foster care placement;

(ii) children and youths who have a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings (within the meaning of section 103(a)(2)(C));

(iii) children and youths who are living in cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations, or similar settings; and

(iv) migratory children (as such term is defined in section 1309 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) who qualify as homeless for the purposes of this subtitle because the children are living in circumstances described in clauses (i) through (iii).

Read the full text (77K) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act.

For more information on determining homelessness, visit Determining Eligibility for Services Under McKinney-Vento.

[Tammy8]

You brought up an interesting point; my daughter lives in a school district that is well thought of and she had to show proof she lived in that district in order to enroll her son. I think that is where it ends though with the school, all they need to show is that they live in the district; not that they are legal.