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Keeping L.A. Kids Home to Prove a Political Point
pjmedia ^ | January 13, 2026 | David Manney

Posted on 01/13/2026 5:00:39 PM PST by chief lee runamok

The Los Angeles Unified School District reported a noticeable drop in student attendance. Why? Families kept children home over fear of immigration enforcement, with Superintendent Alberto Carvalho acknowledging anxiety among parents and students, who have cited concerns about possible enforcement activity in surrounding communities.

The problem with this decision?

There have been zero enforcement actions on school grounds, and no federal agents have entered classrooms.

Still, fear moves faster than facts, and over 133,000 students are missing school because of politics, not reality.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: california

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Deporting the families of the missing 133,000 students would save millions in welfare payments.
1 posted on 01/13/2026 5:00:39 PM PST by chief lee runamok
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To: chief lee runamok

Grownup LA Gringos need to stop believing all the SOB stories from all those bass tards who are illegally north of the border.


2 posted on 01/13/2026 5:04:11 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The DNC far-left turd worlders have "ICE Watch". What happened to "FBI Watch" and "CIA Watch"?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

If they are illegally here, shouldn’t they be deported?


3 posted on 01/13/2026 5:09:57 PM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: chief lee runamok

It costs between $18,000-$23,000 to educate a child in Ca so let’s go with $20k.

$20,000 x 12 yrs = $240,000 per immigrant child to attend 12 yrs of school in Ca not counting fees, free lunches, transportation, healthcare, etc.,.. and multiply that by the 133,000 that are ‘missing’.

We are talking $31,920,000,000 that the US taxpayers are paying to educate illegal crimmigrant invader children.

Mind you, the schools get paid PER STUDENT so they will do anything and everything to get them back in their classrooms so they can get the $$$$.


4 posted on 01/13/2026 5:13:25 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

If the little buttheads keep skipping school, they need to be deported. America already has all of the uneducated morons we nead.


5 posted on 01/13/2026 5:14:16 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The DNC far-left turd worlders have "ICE Watch". What happened to "FBI Watch" and "CIA Watch"?)
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To: chief lee runamok

Illegals shouldn’t be using our schools, our welfare, our housing subsidies, etc.


6 posted on 01/13/2026 5:14:59 PM PST by Tzimisce ( )
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To: chief lee runamok

$billions. Easily.


7 posted on 01/13/2026 5:19:58 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: chief lee runamok
...over 133,000 students are missing school....

Those would be illegal alien children who should not be here in the first place right?

I am HTB's Complete and Utter Sense of Indifference.

8 posted on 01/13/2026 5:27:34 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The tree accused of killed Sonny Bono was planted.)
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To: chief lee runamok

It’s not like they’re learning anything anyway.

L


9 posted on 01/13/2026 5:28:28 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.s)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

You forgot to add the savings of firing 5000 teachers.


10 posted on 01/13/2026 6:32:03 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.”)
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To: chief lee runamok

Well this hurts the Communist Schools in the checkbook, do they not get paid for Average Daily Attendance?

Keep that boycott going


11 posted on 01/13/2026 7:34:27 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: chief lee runamok

Not sure, I think schools are paid per student, per day. Losing that many really could hurt.


12 posted on 01/13/2026 7:49:01 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: chief lee runamok
Psst! There's a secret place you can hide where ICE will never harass or catch you. It's back in your home country. Go there!
13 posted on 01/13/2026 8:03:08 PM PST by KarlInOhio (I pray that the sleeping giant has finally awakened and been filled with a terrible resolve.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

They can just replace the missing Mexicans with some of Minnesota’s invisible Somali children.


14 posted on 01/13/2026 8:04:30 PM PST by KarlInOhio (I pray that the sleeping giant has finally awakened and been filled with a terrible resolve.)
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