Illegal Immigrants: Invading America’s Schools
As of 1999, there were 968,000 illegals in the United States. The number of illegal immigrants has approximately increased to about 11 to 13 million today. School registration should be one ways to identify illegal immigrants and the children of illegal immigrants need to be banned from attending our schools because their parents do not pay taxes.
Illegal immigrants do not pay taxes because they do not have social security numbers and are not registered. No matter what anyone says, education is not free and yet the children of the illegals are receiving a free education at the cost of the taxpayers. The schools are paid with taxpayers money to allow children the opportunity of “free education”. 90% of the taxes that homeowners pay go to the schools for the upkeep, maintenance, supplies and other needs of the school. The illegal immigrants do not pay these taxes because most of them do not own houses; they just rent them.
The funds spent on special requirements for illegal immigrants are taken away from the taxpayers’ children. The schools have to use money to hire someone to teach these students in Spanish or his or her native language; thus resulting in less and less money to be “spread” around to the “regular” classes. The schools then have to hire more teachers to teach the same classes because there are too many students to have just one class for that subject.
There has been a 14% increase in school enrollment between 1990 and 2000. About 250,000 illegal immigrant children are enrolled in our school systems every year. To be put plainly, the illegal immigrants are overcrowding our schools. There are no places to sit in lunchrooms. The cafeteria in my school is constantly being added on to because there are not enough tables for everyone to sit at comfortably. Another overcrowded area is the most important: our learning environment: the classrooms. My school has had to use mobile homes, a.k.a. module buildings, so each teacher could have his or her own classroom. Some classrooms, like my English room for example, were even cut in half by adding a dividing wall so they would have enough room on the school grounds for the “mod” buildings. We have also had a shortage of books that are needed for the classes taken. My math teacher had to re-order about 10 more books because she had not planned to have so many “move-ins”. The result of which, she had to spend money that she had not planned on spending and thus cutting her budget more than was expected.
Many people believe that illegal immigration to be “good” for our economy. However, most of the people who believe this have jobs that require a higher education and are, therefore, “untouchable”. What happens to the people who are laid off because an immigrant is willing to do hard labor for less money than they are?
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