Miami-Dade Schools Want Federal Support to Educate Cuban Refugees

NBC Miami ^ | 01/13/16 | Ari Odzer

[Enlightened1]

The Miami-Dade County School Board is asking for federal support to educate the thousands of Cuban refugee students expected to arrive in South Florida.

About 8,000 Cuban refugees have made it to Costa Rica and are on their way to the U.S., and many of their kids will end up in Miami-Dade public schools.

"the time is now for the federal government to take action," Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Albert Carvalho said Wednesday.

Already this school year, more than 13,000 immigrant children have enrolled and Carvalho is expecting up to 20,000 before the school year is over. Each one of those students costs an extra $2,700 to educate, so the district is asking the feds to pony up some cash.

[BenLurkin]

Here’s a better idea: A 20 year moratorium on ALL immigration.

[Enlightened1]

The borders are wide open and the country is being flooded.

[patq]

“the time is now for the federal government to take action,”

you took them in illegally, you pay for them. there is no federal govt money tree.

[ColdOne]

20k by the end of the year. So add 40k plus for mom and dad and their pre-filled voter registration card. They will have enough votes to win the next WH. obama will not have it any other way.

[itsahoot]

Each one of those students costs an extra $2,700 to educate, so the district is asking the feds to pony up some cash.

That would be in addition to the regular 8 to 10 thousand a year it costs.

[ColdOne]

One question......since when does the Castro regime let his people leave his island? Did he clear out his prisons for this? Let the kids of prisoners come here first? No way obama regime lets in nice fun lovin’ Cubans in our country?

[hal ogen]

Why are they leaving cuba? I thought it was some sort of socialist paradise. Maybe they are all mentally ill. I thought all cubans loved the castros. After all don’t they get free, wonderful medical care. Also, they get to ride in 1950’s cars. What’s not to like???

[Enlightened1]

LOL! Exactly!

Castro destroyed Cuba. They are frozen in time. Look at all those classic 1950s cars!

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article Enlightened1. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

With all due respect to mom & pop, please consider the following.

If the parents of the Miami-Dade School administrators had made sure that their children were taught about the federal governments constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood, including the limits on the federal governments power to appropriate taxes, then their now adult children who are administrators of this school would know the following.

The states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for either immigration or INTRAstate schooling purposes. So Miama-Dade schools have to rely on the state for such funding.

But also note that 10th Amendment-protected state funding for refugee children might be available if the corrupt post-17th Amendment ratification feds were not stealing state revenues by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.

In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clariifed that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, immigration and intrastate schooling not among those powers.

”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.