Posted on 03/18/2017 6:21:58 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Children of immigrants, many in the United States illegally, make up the bulk of students in 700 of the biggest school areas, a huge and unexpected wave that is changing education and society in America, according to a groundbreaking new report.
Using Census Bureau statistics and Google Maps, the Center for Immigration Studies found that in areas including northern Virginia, New York City and Houston, children of immigrants made up to 93 percent of all students.
"The number of children from immigrant households in schools is now so high in some areas that it raises profound questions about assimilation," said the report provided to Secrets.
"What's more, immigration has added enormously to the number of public school students who are in poverty and the number who speak a foreign language. This cannot help but to create significant challenges for schools, often in areas already struggling to educate students who come from disadvantaged backgrounds," it added.
The interactive report allows users to drill down to counties and cities to see the immigrant numbers in the "Public Use Micro Areas" used in Census studies. It focuses on PUMAs of 20,600 students or more.
Overall, 23 percent of all public school students were from an immigrant household in 2015. In 1990 it was 11 percent, and in 1980 it was 7 percent.
And, said the CIS report, "between one-fourth and one-third of public school students from immigrant households were the children of illegal immigrants."
Report author Steven Camarota said, "Of course, we must educate the children of immigrants." But, added the Center's director of research, "the key question moving forward is whether it makes sense to continue to admit 1 million new legal permanent immigrants each year and tolerating illegal immigration without regard to the absorption capacity of our schools in terms of both educating students and assimilating them."
On a state level, he found that California has the biggest percentage of immigrant students in public schools, 48 percent, followed by Nevada, 35 percent, New Jersey and New York at 34 percent, and Texas, 31 percent.
The bulk have Mexican or El Salvadoran parents.
He also found that many immigrant families are poor, which cuts the tax base schools have to tap for funds.
Those areas with the most immigrant students are:
— 93 percent in Northeast Dade County, North Central Hialeah City.
— 91 percent in Jackson in Heights and North Corona New York City.
— 85 percent in Westpark Tollway Houston, TX.
— 83 percent in El Monte and South El Monte Cities, CA.
— 78 percent in Annandale & West Falls Church, VA.
— 74 percent in Fort Lee, Cliffside Park & Palisades Park, N.J.
Just in case anyone misunderstood the forces driving the “open borders” debate: It isn’t just employers seeking cheap labor, or the “poverty industrial complex” seeking clients - it is also teachers’ unions trying to justify EXISTING JOBS in an area where the American birthrate alone would allow for half of this country’s teachers to be laid off IMMEDIATELY.
This is excellent! Kick those kids out of the country and our education system is likely to see immediate benefits and lower costs!! Get ‘er done!
Just a little gift from the U.S. Government to the U.S. taxpayers.
Just checking to see if they meant top as in academic wizards.. I am not disappointed, they meant most crowded.. How about their acedemic performance and the actual dollars per student spent. Be sure to include all spending per student. What? No? Shouldn’t Hispanic parents be going nuts over the quality of education? Illegal children have parents who should have cared enough to get them through citizenship. After all, didn’t they immigrate for a reason? BTW.. my friend couldn’t pick her own child up from a field trip without providing proof of auto insurance... Seriously. So you can’t say this was just discovered.
Ted Kennedy’s legacy.
....all sanctuary cities no doubt
half of this country’s teachers to be laid off IMMEDIATELY.
Half of the Schools in LA County would CLOSE and Half the employees would be fired if we weren’t educating Illegal ALiens and their children.
they hate us and think we are stupid
Kick these “dreamers” out! Their parents should be arrested, have their assets seized and all illegal alien invaders deported. They are all nightmares.
Nailed it sir, the school systems rely on enrollment numbers for federal subsidies. Illegal alien children are being used for scamming the system while deny our citizens any sort of reasonable education required to compete in the world.
And fewer diseases.
Most Conservatives and many Freepers have no problem with this.
"We just need to assimilate them!"
"There are 7.4 billion Americans in the world, just waiting to be assimilated!"
“Just checking to see if they meant top as in academic wizards..”
I’m sure they mean top as in we’ll use that word to get non thinking headline readers to repeat the propaganda that these kids are better than Americans and improving America by granting us with their presence and their superior cultures whatever the nonthinker wants to pretend that is
What’s left out is how are there still only 11 million illegal immigrants
No matter. The non thinkers pretend along with their pretend news making up basics as they go along.
It is what makes them so emotional on the losing side in a fact based debate
And who’s footing the bill for their education and their free breakfast and lunch? The American Taxpayer either through direct real estate taxes on their property or indirectly through rent paid to a landlord. Kick them out.
There. I completed your sentence.
“Biggest” should NOT be “top” in the headline.
And we have schools now that teach in different languages..so the ghettos continue under democrat control..no doubt paid by the taxpayers
Learn English, salute the flag or gtfo
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