Anonymous wrote:Where are the kids going? Our schools are already overcrowded, classrooms are packed in, not enough teachers. There needs to be a limit as to how many kids we take in.

Adding- these immigrant kids get put into already over crowded schools facing massive issues of their own. These kids aren’t going into Potomac schools. They’re getting funneled into Harmony Hills, And other title 1 schools.

Where are the kids going? Our schools are already overcrowded, classrooms are packed in, not enough teachers. There needs to be a limit as to how many kids we take in.

Anonymous wrote:Every single person living here had a distant relative immigrate here to get away from some hellish situation back home. Where is your compassion for humanity? I am horrified by the responses and hope you are but a few trolls and not what most of the county thinks/believes.

The issue is that we are a different country now with the level of social services / education spending and there are hundreds of millions of people around the world who would love to come here. We cannot let the entire world move here and still provide the type of good education and social supports to Americans that most people want. It is not unreasonable to want to enforce your borders - if not the only logical answer is to throw them open not just to the people who can walk here but to all the people in Asia, Africa etc that would want to come too but cannot walk to the border.

Anonymous wrote:Every single person living here had a distant relative immigrate here to get away from some hellish situation back home. Where is your compassion for humanity? I am horrified by the responses and hope you are but a few trolls and not what most of the county thinks/believes.

Except for those of us whose ancestors were indigenous. And those of us whose ancestors were dragged here on slave ships.

Every single person living here had a distant relative immigrate here to get away from some hellish situation back home. Where is your compassion for humanity? I am horrified by the responses and hope you are but a few trolls and not what most of the county thinks/believes.

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Anonymous wrote:Let me guess. Higher taxes soon because there are no more seats in our schools, amirite?

MCPS has 162,680 students. 1,200 unaccompanied minors is less than 1%. If there are no more seats it is hardly the fault of these kids.

Except thaat's in less than one year with no end in sight.. Multiply the problem by 10 years. Illegal immigration has been going on for decades in MoCo and it is already straining the county's resources. That's 1,200 more seats taxpayers have to pay for to educate foreign nationals from another country. Every dollar spent on another country's child is a dollar not spent on our own children.

+1 million

I have lived in MoCo for 20 years and the past decade has brought an influx. We are at a lower-income school with a high ESOL and a high FARMS rate and there is no denying the changes it has brought to our school system (in parts of the county that are not Potomac).

Our schools are overcrowded and understaffed. That was made even more clear during the pandemic.

It makes sense to acknowledge the challenges the school system is facing due to the surge of undocumented immigrants to the county. Ignoring the issue doesn’t make it go away.

Too much common sense

Anonymous wrote:And guess where the unaccompanied minors end up going to school? They end up at schools with already high FARMS and resource constraints impacting the students attending those schools. It's not like they're going to Churchill.

We are happy to have them!

And guess where the unaccompanied minors end up going to school? They end up at schools with already high FARMS and resource constraints impacting the students attending those schools. It's not like they're going to Churchill.

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Anonymous wrote:Glad we are taking them. Imagine how bad their lives were if their parents were willing to risk everything to send them here.

Meanwhile 0% of American children in Baltimore have no proficiency in basic math, live in squalor, and didn't even have heating in their schools. Yes, I'm oh so glad we continue to take in thkusands and millions of citizens from other countries while our own citizens suffer. Imagine how bad our own child citizens lives are in cities like Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, etc. There are American kids who grow up everyday without running water, food, or stable housing. Sorry for not caring about other countries' citizens at the moment.

Stop making up stuff.

Who's making up what now?

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/13-baltimore-city-high-schools-zero-students-proficient-in-math

https://twitter.com/KadhimWrites/status/948373485490987008?s=20

But yes, let's open the floodgates to minors from foreign countries while our own citizens have to go to schools with no heat or to terrible high schools where none of them are.tsihht to have a proficient level of math. Every dollar spent on ESL classes and other remedial education for foreign nationals here illegally is a dollar not spent on improving those schools in Baltimore for our own citizens.

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Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let me guess. Higher taxes soon because there are no more seats in our schools, amirite?

MCPS has 162,680 students. 1,200 unaccompanied minors is less than 1%. If there are no more seats it is hardly the fault of these kids.

Except thaat's in less than one year with no end in sight.. Multiply the problem by 10 years. Illegal immigration has been going on for decades in MoCo and it is already straining the county's resources. That's 1,200 more seats taxpayers have to pay for to educate foreign nationals from another country. Every dollar spent on another country's child is a dollar not spent on our own children.

Then maybe we should fix the immigration and refugee problem that leads to the children being unaccompanied so that their tax-paying, labor-providing parents come along, too. Seems like a win-win. In addition to not being terrible.

No, that’s not a win-win at all.

Yes, we should fix the immigration problem that has been caused by essentially having open borders and encouraging illegal immigration. It’s not compassionate to encourage parents to send their minor children into the US unaccompanied.

Why are we encouraging illegal immigration? No other reason than to ensure that our construction companies and landscaping companies and agriculture employers have an endless supply of cheap labor.

You can advocate to allow for more legal immigration. But advocating for more illegal immigration is a terrible, selfish and misguided idea.

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Anonymous wrote:Glad we are taking them. Imagine how bad their lives were if their parents were willing to risk everything to send them here.

Meanwhile 0% of American children in Baltimore have no proficiency in basic math, live in squalor, and didn't even have heating in their schools. Yes, I'm oh so glad we continue to take in thkusands and millions of citizens from other countries while our own citizens suffer. Imagine how bad our own child citizens lives are in cities like Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, etc. There are American kids who grow up everyday without running water, food, or stable housing. Sorry for not caring about other countries' citizens at the moment.

Stop making up stuff.

Anonymous wrote:These kids didn’t get an education from MCPS all of last year…. Just like mine.

That was 100% your fault if they didn't get an education. Its called parenting. You make sure they log on, you support them, check to see work is done and if you cannot help, tutor. For ES, you supplement.

These kids didn’t get an education from MCPS all of last year…. Just like mine.

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Anonymous wrote:Glad we are taking them. Imagine how bad their lives were if their parents were willing to risk everything to send them here.

Meanwhile 0% of American children in Baltimore have no proficiency in basic math, live in squalor, and didn't even have heating in their schools. Yes, I'm oh so glad we continue to take in thkusands and millions of citizens from other countries while our own citizens suffer. Imagine how bad our own child citizens lives are in cities like Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, etc. There are American kids who grow up everyday without running water, food, or stable housing. Sorry for not caring about other countries' citizens at the moment.

+1

I do have sympathy for these unaccompanied minors but we as a country can’t just keep giving and spending money on immigrants that don’t pay into the tax system. There are kids in terrible situations. We need money to provide more mental health services, supports, remediation in school, free vocational training, free community college, etc. to try to help our own citizens.

So let their parents come. Their parents will pay a higher proportionate share in taxes than most billionaires and will solve the problem we currently have of filling low skilled jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:Glad we are taking them. Imagine how bad their lives were if their parents were willing to risk everything to send them here.

Meanwhile 0% of American children in Baltimore have no proficiency in basic math, live in squalor, and didn't even have heating in their schools. Yes, I'm oh so glad we continue to take in thkusands and millions of citizens from other countries while our own citizens suffer. Imagine how bad our own child citizens lives are in cities like Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, etc. There are American kids who grow up everyday without running water, food, or stable housing. Sorry for not caring about other countries' citizens at the moment.

There’s enough caring to care about both.