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I think voting materials should all be in English. All the other non-English speakers had to learn English to vote, why not Soanish speakers?

You obviously have never seen a Fairfax County ballot. From the Vietnamese on it, I initially thought we were voting for some office in Hanoi. Then I noticed the other languages like Chinese, Korean, and Arabic. At least I can spell the Spanish words!

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Anonymous wrote:Here's a proposal.:

Among the hardest hit by the influx of illegal aliens' children in the school system, beyond American children themselves who now have lower caliber schools, are senior citizens. They probably haven't had kids in public schools for 20 years (if in fact they had kids at all), and I say 35 years of supporting public education in sufficient. It's unfair to ask them to shoulder the burden of now educating illegals' kids, too.

The property tax rates of senior citizens in high illegal immigrant districts should be cut in half (regardless of income or assets). These people have paid to educate two generations of children, and that's enough.

No. The proper solution is to send these kids home so that their own tax payers can fund their education. Senior citizens still benefit from good schools as good schools tend to correspond with good property values.

Yes, I agree that would be the proper solution, but you know liberals would never stand for it. So since seniors are stuck in bad school districts because of illegals, I think they should get a tax break.

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Senior citizens still benefit from good schools as good schools tend to correspond with good property values.

Fixed income senior citizens who plan on dying before selling that house benefit from low property values.

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Anonymous wrote:For the average DCUM poster illegal immigrants are great lower prices overall and cheap labor for you

Not to keep beating a dead horse but the reason Trump won again is illegal immigrants drove down and are continuing to drive down blue collar wages

And in some cases not all they are having negative effects by overwhelming schools by ESOL and other services and by sheer population. You don't have to go far in Montgomery county or fairfax county to see the problems

And again the typical DCUM poster in Bethesda or other rich parts of these places doesn't see the issues first hand

Can you back up your assertions with actual numbers, pleas. How many students in schools are undocumented. Also how many taxes are undocumented workers paying? That would be helpful to know. Because you must be basing your post on actual numbers that you can cite. Otherwise why make those assertions.

There have been 600 unaccompanied minors released in northern VA just this fiscal year with most of those dumped in Fairfax County. There are probably many many more who weren't caught at the border and show up at our schools. If your schools were impacted like some of ours you would understand. Our school is overflowing already and when you include kids who are way behind everyone else and don't speak a word of English, it slows down the entire class and negatively impacts everyone.

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/resource/unaccompanied-alien-children-released-to-sponsors-by-county

+ 1 The high school where my friend lives (in MoCo) is rated a 3. It's half Hispanic and very high ESOL and FARMS. Don't tell me these are legal American citizens. It's so bad that you can buy a 5-bedroom house in her neighborhood for the low $400s.

Yeah MoCo went way down after Prince William County ran out illegal immigrants and a lot of them went to MoCo. It used to be one of the best school systems in the area but now their schools are in the toilet because of the influx of these kids. I've heard the graduation rate dropped pretty low too.

I wouldn't move there if you paid me

Yes, I grew up there and went to the local public school. It was a middle to upper-middle class school, with parents who were mostly college graduates and very involved in their kids' educations. Now it's unrecognizable.

Glad you’re no longer here.

I think voting materials should all be in English. All the other non-English speakers had to learn English to vote, why not Soanish speakers?

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Yes, and it's really put a financial burden on average earners who bought modest homes. They purchased a house they could afford, years ago, and now the property taxes have escalated so high that they're being priced out of their own home

Anything that drives up real estate values does that, not just a larger public school budget. Development along the orange and red lines, the total rebuilding of Arlington and Bethesda, more demand for housing in this area all drive up property taxes. Someone needs to attempt to break down that rise, in Fairfax say, due to immigrant schooling vs other factors.

It's impossible to do because we can't get a reliable count of what percent are illegals. If we could, it would be easy.

We're not even allowed to ask on the Census form because it wouldn't be "fair" to ilegal immigrants.

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Anonymous wrote:For the average DCUM poster illegal immigrants are great lower prices overall and cheap labor for you

Not to keep beating a dead horse but the reason Trump won again is illegal immigrants drove down and are continuing to drive down blue collar wages

And in some cases not all they are having negative effects by overwhelming schools by ESOL and other services and by sheer population. You don't have to go far in Montgomery county or fairfax county to see the problems

And again the typical DCUM poster in Bethesda or other rich parts of these places doesn't see the issues first hand

Can you back up your assertions with actual numbers, pleas. How many students in schools are undocumented. Also how many taxes are undocumented workers paying? That would be helpful to know. Because you must be basing your post on actual numbers that you can cite. Otherwise why make those assertions.

There have been 600 unaccompanied minors released in northern VA just this fiscal year with most of those dumped in Fairfax County. There are probably many many more who weren't caught at the border and show up at our schools. If your schools were impacted like some of ours you would understand. Our school is overflowing already and when you include kids who are way behind everyone else and don't speak a word of English, it slows down the entire class and negatively impacts everyone.

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/resource/unaccompanied-alien-children-released-to-sponsors-by-county

+ 1 The high school where my friend lives (in MoCo) is rated a 3. It's half Hispanic and very high ESOL and FARMS. Don't tell me these are legal American citizens. It's so bad that you can buy a 5-bedroom house in her neighborhood for the low $400s.

Yeah MoCo went way down after Prince William County ran out illegal immigrants and a lot of them went to MoCo. It used to be one of the best school systems in the area but now their schools are in the toilet because of the influx of these kids. I've heard the graduation rate dropped pretty low too.

I wouldn't move there if you paid me

Yes, I grew up there and went to the local public school. It was a middle to upper-middle class school, with parents who were mostly college graduates and very involved in their kids' educations. Now it's unrecognizable.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's a proposal.:

Among the hardest hit by the influx of illegal aliens' children in the school system, beyond American children themselves who now have lower caliber schools, are senior citizens. They probably haven't had kids in public schools for 20 years (if in fact they had kids at all), and I say 35 years of supporting public education in sufficient. It's unfair to ask them to shoulder the burden of now educating illegals' kids, too.

The property tax rates of senior citizens in high illegal immigrant districts should be cut in half (regardless of income or assets). These people have paid to educate two generations of children, and that's enough.

No. The proper solution is to send these kids home so that their own tax payers can fund their education. Senior citizens still benefit from good schools as good schools tend to correspond with good property values.

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Yes, and it's really put a financial burden on average earners who bought modest homes. They purchased a house they could afford, years ago, and now the property taxes have escalated so high that they're being priced out of their own home

Anything that drives up real estate values does that, not just a larger public school budget. Development along the orange and red lines, the total rebuilding of Arlington and Bethesda, more demand for housing in this area all drive up property taxes. Someone needs to attempt to break down that rise, in Fairfax say, due to immigrant schooling vs other factors.

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Yes, and it's really put a financial burden on average earners who bought modest homes. They purchased a house they could afford, years ago, and now the property taxes have escalated so high that they're being priced out of their own home

Anything that drives up real estate values does that, not just a larger public school budget. Development along the orange and red lines, the total rebuilding of Arlington and Bethesda, more demand for housing in this area all drive up property taxes. Someone needs to attempt to break down that rise, in Fairfax say, due to immigrant schooling vs other factors.

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Anonymous wrote:All these kids will come out speaking English, being high school graduates, and ready to grow our economy and supporting our favorite PP in her dotage. Most countries would love a supply of young, eager workers looking forward to building their careers and becoming citizens of their new country.

A very few may do so. Go visit one of the high schools impacted by these kids. Most do not even show up for school--or show up erratically--at least that is what an ESOL teacher in one of these high schools tells me. And, by the way, she is a dedicated, Dem party activist.

As for speaking English, maybe the younger ones will. However, if that is the case, why must our voting ballots also be in Spanish? Why are we required to have a Spanish speaker at every polling place? Why are the signs at polls in several languages?

I think voting materials should all be in English. All the other non-English speakers had to learn English to vote, why not Soanish speakers?

Senior citizens still benefit from good schools as good schools tend to correspond with good property values.

Yes, and it's really put a financial burden on average earners who bought modest homes. They purchased a house they could afford, years ago, and now the property taxes have escalated so high that they're being priced out of their own home

Anonymous wrote:Here's a proposal.:

Among the hardest hit by the influx of illegal aliens' children in the school system, beyond American children themselves who now have lower caliber schools, are senior citizens. They probably haven't had kids in public schools for 20 years (if in fact they had kids at all), and I say 35 years of supporting public education in sufficient. It's unfair to ask them to shoulder the burden of now educating illegals' kids, too.

The property tax rates of senior citizens in high illegal immigrant districts should be cut in half (regardless of income or assets). These people have paid to educate two generations of children, and that's enough.

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Anonymous wrote:All these kids will come out speaking English, being high school graduates, and ready to grow our economy and supporting our favorite PP in her dotage. Most countries would love a supply of young, eager workers looking forward to building their careers and becoming citizens of their new country.

A very few may do so. Go visit one of the high schools impacted by these kids. Most do not even show up for school--or show up erratically--at least that is what an ESOL teacher in one of these high schools tells me. And, by the way, she is a dedicated, Dem party activist.

As for speaking English, maybe the younger ones will. However, if that is the case, why must our voting ballots also be in Spanish? Why are we required to have a Spanish speaker at every polling place? Why are the signs at polls in several languages?