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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is significant cost to school systems for the extra seats, plus extra ESL and other services.[/quote]

What I wonder about is families of English Learners are paying taxes towards those seats.  They pay rent and their landlord then pays taxes from that rent, or they own and pay taxes.  So, yeah when enrollment goes up, then costs go up, but more people living in an area means more money for the township.  My experiences teaching in schools has demonstrated that while yes, EL's need special services, they truly get next to nothing.  I mean, I taught in a city school with 500 kids and I was the only EL teacher.  200/500 qualified for services.  So, they were getting maybe 30 minutes of push in support each week.  It isn't much.  Plus,most of the kids who qualify for EL support come from families who are here legally.  So, not sure how much money having undocumented folks actually "cost".  Plus when you figure in the tremendous amount of economic activity immigrants bring in, the amount of taxes their businesses bring, the amount they pay in stores, etc, I suspect they give more than they take.
I live in Chicago and while everyone knows about Michigan Avenue, many people don't know about 26th Street in Little Village that is the 2nd highest economic generator in the entire state.  That area is nearly entirely Spanish speaking with lots of immigrants, documented and undocumented.[/quote]

You think their landlords are reporting the income they receive, likely in cash, from illegal aliens?  Bless you. [/quote]

Probably the loudest MAGA landlords are the ones that cheat on the taxes.  Also slumlords because their tenants are too scared to report no heat or hot water.

Immigration is nothing new but Trump has latched on to the hate for immigrants, which also isn’t new and has repeated over and over that they are all criminals and he’s getting rid of the criminals.   Which would be nice if it were true. [/quote]

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