is typically not the first place one thinks of when discussing the immigration crisis that has engulfed the country since PresidentBut, in a testament to the strain that illegal immigration can place on the infrastructure of a country, state, or city, school districts from Austin, Texas, to Brooklyn, New York, have been forced to accommodate thousands of illegal immigrant children in their classrooms.
“In just four states — California, New York, Texas, and Arizona — the cost of integrating illegal immigrant children into public schools reached nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars in one fiscal year,” subcommittee Chairman Aaron Bean said during the hearing. “If we assume that every illegal immigrant child encountered by Border Patrol enters the school system, the cost nationwide would be over $2 billion annually.
“We are now finding that seat availability in all of the grades needed is very challenging,” one email said. “While we were trying to keep all siblings in one school, we have had to split up several families as far as school placement.”