Municipal school systems around the country are gearing up to absorb tens of thousands of children who arrived illegally from Central America for the new school year, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The influx, mostly from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, will stress the resources of schools from large metropolitan areas to small towns from California to New York. A minimum of 37,000 children who have been placed with sponsors as of July 31 are eligible to attend public school, according to the Journal.
Among the systems expected to be most heavily impacted are Texas, where over 5,000 illegal migrant pupils will be showing up for school as well as New York and California, which will each get about 4,000 arrivals, the Journal reported.
Many will come with psychological scars requiring trauma counseling. Almost all will need remedial help in learning English. Every single one will have access to subsidized nutritional programs.
Public schools are obligated by the federal government to enroll the children regardless of their immigration status. Alberto Carvalho of Miami-Dade County Public Schools said, "We have both a legal and moral obligation to teach these kids," the Journal reported.
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10 comments:
The taxpayers are footing the bill for these potential Democrat votes.....
The laws need to be changed, vote in new congressmen. The old way of doing things is over.
Joe, with all your resources, will you be sponsoring a Latin child or two?
Why can't, say Catholic church open up a boys town type school.
Most Mexicans are Catholic anyway.
They are not Mexicans.
Ask for there ss numbers and id my kid cant register for school without it ,the schools BETTER enforce it.
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Let's just agree to call them Mexicans - OK?
They got here by way of Mexico.
I will call them Mexicans.
Thank you very much
Prior to entering the U.S. illegally, they were all Mexicans.
Before becoming illegal in America, did they enter Mexico illegally?
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