Of course it does if the alternative is they don't get educated.
I don't know how you make a living but I'd wager you, your employer or your customers, or all three require an educated workforce to survive.
How successful do you think a company that can only hire uneducated people would be?
Do you really doubt you have been made richer because of the education of Americans in general?
If you disagree, you should offer to pay for other peoples’ kids to go to school yourself...
I do, every time I pay my property and other taxes.
And I'm happy to do it even though I don't have any kids in public schools. Because I think things would go to hell if we stopped sending kids to school.
There are school districts in Texas where up to 40% of the students are here illegally. That is a tremendous, disproportionate burden to put on the taxpayers of that district. It is highly unlikely that those particular taxpayers will reap 100% of the benefit that may come from educating those students even though they are footing 100% of that bill.
And obviously, they would not magically become more wealthy if the number of illegal students doubled. At the very least, shouldn't the taxpayers of that district make that decision, and have the opportunity to vote on whether they should have to pay more taxes to educate illegals?
As to the second point, there is no evidence that spending $50k to educate an illegal immigrant will make them a better unskilled/low-skilled/unemployed worker. Especially given that the left is advocating for Universal Basic Income because we supposedly don't have enough jobs to go around as it is.
Finally, free education is one of the big magnets that induces illegals to enter the country in the first place. We should be removing such incentives, not keep the going in perpetuity.
The results of the 2021 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, the Texas standardized tests, indicate 36% of Texas fourth grade students scored at or above grade level for reading.
The percentage of fourth-grade students reading at or above grade level declined from 2019 to 2021. In 2019, 43% of students were reading at or above grade level.
At the Austin Independent School District, 30% of 7th graders “did not meet” standards for reading. That number jumped to 45% in 2021. The discrepancy was even more heightened for mathematics. In 2019, 44% of 7th graders “did not meet” expectations. That number jumped to 72% in 2021, meaning nearly 3 out of every 4 7th graders were not at their understanding their concepts appropriate for their grade.
https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/new-staar-data-reveals-texas-students-slipped-significantly-in-reading-and-math/