[quote=bearishgurl] It costs these states a FORTUNE to educate this never-ending northbound flow of students. These saved billions (from no longer voluntarily educating tens of thousands foreign students in our public schools within border counties) should instead be spent on CA’s crumbling infrastructure.[/quote]
I’m more interested in the original topic of this thread but noticed BG is appearing again to re-ignite her rant about children of immigrants. BG, I was hoping you’d finally bring data this time, but sad to see it’s just more false claims and fear-mongering. 🙁
All those media links you provided do not do your point justice. Did you read them? Did you really mean to post an article about immigration from 1991…do you realize how dramatically the facts and issues surrounding immigration have changed since then? I didn’t have the patience to click on every one, but the articles you posted about CA do not prove your point at all. The only thing those articles provide is a restatement of the issue we know exists – kids come over the border every day to get an education. Did you mean to do that, because the issue I was hoping you’d finally prove is not that it happens (duh) but how many of these children are not residents of the U.S. and/or what is the impact to our economy?
Several of those articles state many are U.S. citizens and live in both SD and TJ. So where are your numbers? Where is the evidence that we would save “billions” and a “fortune” if we didn’t educate the kids crossing back and forth between border communities? You’re not citing any facts, just your own opinions, apparently meant to stir up anger and resentment.
The last time you were griping about this, you wrote these kids are somehow requiring us to operate at least 25% more schools in South County and costing 25% more in teacher and administrator salaries. In response, I cited the 2010 USC study (http://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/731/docs/chirla_v10_small.pdf) showing that actually only 13% of California’s children are those of undocumented Latino immigrants. To that, I got deafening silence. Unfortunately, you never responded. So where did your 25% come from? I’m genuinely interested and am still waiting. As you may recall, the USC study’s other point was that it found undocumented Latino immigrants are contributing $2.2 billion in cheap labor to our local economy. That seems to be the opposite of your most recent claim that their kids cost us a “FORTUNE” or “billions.”
I’m sure you’ve noticed the motto of Rich’s Piggington forum listed at the bottom of the page, “In God We Trust. Everyone Else Bring Data.” I believe you and I fall under the “Everyone Else” category. 🙂
