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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Lynn officials: Illegal immigrant children are stressing city services

LYNN, Mass. (MyFoxBoston.com) -- Lynn is a municipality on the brink. Key department officials say a recent influx of illegal immigrant children and families in the city is stressing almost every service from trash collection to healthcare.

"We have been aware of the unaccompanied children issue for quite a while, and we were able to absorb a lot of these children early on," said Lynn Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy. "But now it's gotten to the point where the school system is overwhelmed, our health department is overwhelmed, the city's budget is being sustainably altered in order of accommodate all of these admissions in the school department."

Flanagan Kennedy says the first contact for immigrant arrivals in the city is the school system.

The amount of new foreign born student admissions has nearly doubled in the last two years. This school year alone saw more than 600 new admissions. Among those students, 248 were from Guatemala. Flanagan Kennedy says of those 248 children, 126 were illegal, undocumented minors.

"They are not literate in any language, so they do need some skills. And I assume they are enrolling in school to receive those skills," said Catherine Latham, Lynn's superintendent of schools .

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good, maybe everyone will fight back.

Anonymous said...

Damn Yankee State. Hope they enjoy.

Anonymous said...

Awwwwww poor Massachusetts! l

Anonymous said...

That bastion of Democrats now gets to have a taste of its own doing. Sorry for your suffering -- welcome to the problems you helped create.

Anonymous said...

All public school systems spent a huge majority of their budgets on kids with learning and behavioral issues. The other kids are not a priority.

Anonymous said...

11:27 AM I have to agree with you.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
That bastion of Democrats now gets to have a taste of its own doing. Sorry for your suffering -- welcome to the problems you helped create.

September 10, 2014 at 12:12 PM

Spot on, Spot on!!