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I don’t understand why we (taxpayers) need to support paying for students who aren’t of even legal residence here. In my area, they’re offering free english language classes to any adult living nearby. That comes out of a budget somewhere too.. And where I live, I mean it’s not that people can’t afford to pay for a language school if they really wanted it..[/quote]

Think of the consequences : If you do not pay for illegal students, it does not mean that illegals go away. It just means that in 13 years you will have a bunch of uneducated people living in your city. I am not sure if that is the price you would want to pay i.e. a bunch of non-literate folks around you.
In carmel valley I find that it is mostly senior asians taking these free english classes. These are well to do people who come here to visit their kids and grand kids. Why should they be denied a service that is provided to all adults over the county? Now do you want a bureaucrat to decide which neighborhood gets this fee service and which one doesn’t? And who pays his/her salary? Who pays for the school employee to decide on the immigration status of all kids in the school? And who gets to decide what educational course is employable and what is not? You?

I sometimes wonder if the so-called taxpayers think through their complaints.