Even the left-leaning Wall Street Journal has highlighted the enormous strain placed on teachers, taxpayers, and resources by the flood of illegal immigrants pouring into America through Biden’s open borders.
The Wall Street Journal reported in an article on May 25, that as many as a million illegal alien children have entered America after 2021 when Biden assumed office. Denver schools reported a budget deficit of $17.5 million last year due to illegals. Denver, of course, is a sanctuary city. But illegal aliens are sent to all parts of the country. All states are border states now and this is a problem for schools.
The WSJ reported that the migrants “add financial and logistical pressures to communities where they are arriving in large numbers” and districts now need more teachers and staff in order to teach English. The new students need more room, and “promised federal or state funding is often delayed or not delivered.”
In Stoughton Mass., 90 more students cost $500,000 in additional busing costs and staff. It’s a situation that is likely to get worse as Massachusetts, a leftist state, is legally required by law to accept any family who requests shelter. Breitbart summarized:
Stoughton has fewer than 30 000 residents. The school district there has had to pay an additional half million dollars due to the mass migration. Officials from the state said that all funds would be reimbursed eventually.
Children who arrive in need of basic education often also require help with trauma. Joseph Baeta, district superintendent, told WSJ that there are “huge trauma issues”. There are students that don’t have the basic skills to speak their first language. Some of these children have been living in more than one country and still not be five years old.
Breitbart previously reported that the Center for Immigration Studies had found a correlation between an increase in illegal immigration and the state of U.S. public schools.
Researchers at the Center for Immigration Studies studied the impact of mass migration under the Biden Administration, and found that by 2021, one in four public school students from the United States would be from immigrant families — more than twice the share from 1990 and more than triple the share from 1980.
Researchers found that immigrants disproportionately contributed to the increase in low-income public school students. They also noted, “In 2021 21 percent of students in public school from immigrant families lived in poverty, and they represented 29 percent of students who were living below poverty line.”
Illegal immigration costs Americans billions, and many illegals never pay back to the system. For example, less than half of illegals who entered America during Biden’s tenure are employed.
Lockdowns under COVID-19 have caused many U.S. children to fall behind in their education. We cannot continue to fund an endless flow of illiterate children from abroad.
