Arizona taxpayers spend up to $1.2 billion annually to educate children of illegal immigrants

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/ ^ | Feb. 14, 2007 | Nicole Beyer

[Kimmers]

And my liberal sister in law, retired in AZ says that the illegals are not a drain on society....(but they did get their back patio installed at a good price, by people that did not speak english)....

[flashbunny]

better than having to pay $6 for a head of lettuce!!!

And anyone who disagrees with the above statement is a racist.

[McGavin999]

81% of my property tax goes for schools. I wouldn't mind that if the kids were LEGAL, but it sure burns me to finance someone who is growing up hating America and demanding that I educate them.

[XR7]

Arizona taxpayers spend up to $1.2 billion annually to educate children of illegal immigrants...

PERSPECTIVE:

The U.S. total debt to the UN since World War II = $1.3 billion.

[RJL]

Prop. 300, which voters approved in 2006, requires state colleges and universities to check Social Security numbers and charge out-of-state tuition for applicants without proper documentation.

My daughter, a fourth generation American, attended Arizona State University her junior and senior year, graduating last May. She had to pay out of state tuition both years.

It's just so sad, racist, and totally unfair that illegal Mexicans can't come here and pay only a third of what she had to pay.

/S

[cobaltblu]

No doubt. I'm really mad also that I was asked for MY Social Security number 5 million times during college too. I mean REALLY, how dare they. (/sarc)

[lowbridge]

The U.S. total debt to the UN since World War II = $1.3 billion.

Solution: 1) Insure the UN property for several billion dollars with European insurance companies. 2) Burn the UN down to the ground.

[SandRat]

ARRRRRGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!

[Bogtrotter52]

My son got out of the air force after 4 years and moved in with me (Kingman, AZ) last August. He wants to go for a law degree. But not here. Having been born and raised in Alaska he too falls under the one year rule. I am anxious to see what happens when proposition 300 we passed here in AZ begin to be enforced.......or not enforced. I predict that the Napolitano administration will find some way to circumvent the will of the people on this and other propositions passed recently. Oh, my son has applied to Duke.....mayhe can join the LaCrosse team.

[Popocatapetl]

There is an upside, at least about illegals in Arizona.

They don't ghetto-ize very much at all in Phoenix, so their integration is much faster, they get jobs instead of slacking off, their kids speak English, and the big point: with one or two generations of hard work and success, they become politically conservative and tend to support republicans.

Their kids are totally disconnected from Mexico, and are fully Americanized.

This is almost the exact opposite of illegals that land in California.

Looking to the future, now that Mexico's birthrate has dropped to 2.3 kids per family, their sky high emigration to the US will have to strongly decline, and wages in Mexico will have to go up. So even if we do nothing, the situation will improve.

The worst danger is that Mexico has become politically unstable, and could descend into a civil war like they had in the early part of the 20th Century, except with millions of refugees wanting to cross the border.

America no longer has the luxury of just ignoring them.

[Logophile]

That’s because schools such as Lindbergh aren’t allowed to ask. A 1982 U.S. Supreme Court ruling states that all children in the United States have a constitutional right to a public education regardless of their immigration status or the status of their parents.

In other words, the taxpayers have a consitutional obligation to pay for the education of illegal immigrants?

[pdunkin]

Oh, like we don't know where you're coming from...joined freep on 6-6-06, or 6-6-6.
(honestly, i have no comment on your post but I thought the sign up date was a hoot)

[politicalwit]

"Jennifer Kill, a sixth-grade teacher at the school, said she has never asked if any of these students are illegal immigrants or the children of illegal immigrants. Her job is to teach children, not to guard the border."

Perhaps Jennifer should have her salary reduced in order to defray that extra billion dollars of taxpayer dollars. Better yet, ask Jennifer how much more salary she could have if she wasn't paying for the illegals education?

[gubamyster]

ping

[Regulator]

and she does “whatever it takes” to help these students succeed

Using the money of people who didn't consent to use it to do "whatever it takes"

[CheyennePress]

Gabriela, a 17-year-old illegal immigrant who moved to the United States with her family when she was 2, said most illegal immigrants pay taxes and should be welcome at public schools.

“One way or another, we should be getting what we pay for,” she said.

Show me the first illegal immigrant who pays $9,600 in taxes per year (per child), and we'll talk. This Gabriela is just blowing frijoles out of her pipehole without the slightest degree of rational thought flowing through her cabeza. She just knows that she wants, knows that what she is doing is wrong, and really doesn't give a chalupa.

[raybbr]

81% of my property tax goes for schools. I wouldn't mind that if the kids were LEGAL, but it sure burns me to finance someone who is growing up hating America and demanding that I educate them.

And, wait till the anchor babies start to vote. Who do you think they will vote for? It will be the politician that promises compensation to madre and padre for their years of suffering at the hands of evil white men.

[Kellis91789]

[“That’s the reason we’re here,” Kill said. “So my students can graduate and they can get jobs and be productive.” ]

And she is also apparently unaware that those students will not be able to hold a job LEGALLY, so she is really educating people that will need to go back to Mexico or work ILLEGALLY.

ILLEGALS will always be an underclass here in America, and I can understand why that is OK with THEM -- it is better than wherever they came from. What I can't understand is the Americans that claim to be impartial about the creation and perpetuation of an underclass. They are either in favor of this vis-a-vis the slave-owner mentality, or they are frauds and are really open-borders liberals wanting to swell the voting ranks to usher in the Socialist State.

[Leisler]

Holla class, repeat after me.
"Stick your hands up!"

Ok, fine. Lets try another.
"My baby is American. I want my housing."