Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Taxpayers Expected to Pay for Illegal-Immigrant Children’s Education

axpayers may foot the bill for the education of the illegal-immigrant children flooding across the border when school resumes this fall. “American taxpayers are being forced to pay the huge cost of providing schooling to every illegal immigrant under 18 (and many 18+) who is dropped inside the U.S.,” a GOP aide with knowledge of the situation e-mails National Review Online. “This is just a tiny slice of the bill taxpayers are being asked to absorb that we’re supposedly forbidden from discussing in polite company.”  In a “Dear Colleague letter” sent to all public-school districts on May 8, 2014, by the Departments of Justice and Education, federal officials reminded the schools of their obligation to provide equal educational opportunities under the law...more

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