Millions of migrants, most seeking asylum, have crossed the border in recent years and have been allowed to settle in the U.S. until a federal immigration judge decides their fate, a process that can take years.
Among the record numbers, federal data suggest, are as many as one million children who have arrived with their families or on their own since 2021.
They are settling in cities and entering public schools around the U.S., adding financial and logistical strains in communities where they have arrived in large numbers. Districts are faced with the need for additional teachers and staff who can teach English and space for new students, often while waiting for promised supplemental federal or state funding.
There were recently more than 500 English learners in Stoughton schools, double the number from three years ago. The increase was fueled partly by 90 students, ranging from kindergarten to high school, placed by the state in two nearby hotels serving as homeless shelters. Many are from recently arrived Haitian migrant families.
Adding the 90 shelter students has cost Stoughton, which teaches a total of 3,740 students, at least $500,000 for increased staff and busing costs. The state said it has reimbursed nearly all of that money.
But the lag time and uncertainty about how much would be paid back has challenged the district’s ability to plan, said Joseph Baeta, Stoughton’s superintendent.
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When you count the number of major problems--like this one--facing the country (costs of illegal immigration, $34 trillion debt, crime in major US cities, homelessness, fentanyl and meth addiction and death, wars, environmental catastrophes, two unqualified Presidential candidates, hyper partisanship and racial tensions, etc.) you wonder how we'll survive as a prosperous and orderly country with a good quality of life.
It sure helped also when Republicans yesterday refused to help Democrats institute restrictions on border immigration.
Schools across the nation will face the onslaught of kids from backgrounds and countries as this article describes. Taxpayer's will see their money go to house, school and medically provide services. American students will suffer as the resources are parceled out to those incoming and overwhelming the teachers and system. Our schools already can't get kids to perform at grade level academics. Joe Biden has allowed and welcomed this. He has sold out our kids, veterans and the American way of life.
The whole illegal crossing thing is cruel. Cruel to the people who endure horrible things, and cost to get here, and mostly should be deported at the end of their legal process. It is also cruel to those who arrived legally, or who were born here, that are denied services and opportunities, due to lack of funding or resources. This all should have been prevented by the administration, but they choose another course, in November it will time for us to determine if it should be rewarded or not.
All these expenses and chaos coming to the town you live in and ALL OF IT could have been avoided. Schools are not educating those who were born here so now the schools will under educate millions of others.
Biden is a disaster and only a mass correction in this country has a chance to save our next generation.
Too bad the current "under 40's" are so poorly educated that they are willingly giving away their birthright.
Open the borders and get millions of productive, well educated, ambitious, healthy, believers in the rule of law, constitutional government, Western Civilization and the American Way, ready to go to work and become valuable members of society. Right! We got the millions, but the rest of it is going to take a lot of time and effort. First step in that process is to get the Biden/Obama cartel out of power like yesterday.
Biden's open border is treasonous.
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