The illegals probably have some impact on schools. By the way, I meant to post that study yesterday and got pulled away. The one I saw a while back said that the net effect of illegal immigration was slightly positive. I did not put my hands on that one but googling "economic effects illegal immigration" got me a wikipedia that referenced a study by the Congressional Budget Office that says its effect is probably negative, but minor. The difference is probably in the assumptions, but I'd be happy to go along with the CBO.
Education is one area where there probably is an effect. We homeschooled at one point because the local school was too overwhelmed with ESL students to do my dually exceptional kids much good. But this is anecdotal and I don't think you can hang the de-funding of schools exclusively on immigration vs say war spending. > I'll concede the point. It is illegal to ask students if they are illegal. > Of course their aren't enough ESL teachers so all of the students who can't > speak English are just main streamed. > > > "games? I am not sure what you are saying here." > > Gangs. Fat finger problem. The only proof I have of these is the > newspaper, which lists arrests and sometimes lists immigrant status and the > word of school resource officers who talk to teachers about local gangs and > what they should be looking out for in terms of identifying members. Ok, and here again, yeah there are gangs amongst illegal immigrants, as we saw in Salinas, but there are other gangs too.... > Sure you can. If they are here illegally, send them back to their country > of origin. all twelve million of them or whatever :D You know there's no budget for that. > Not surprised. I should have laid it out in more detail. Illegal > immigrants, unlike those who are legally admitted, do not submit to medical > screening in order to assure that they are not inflected with contagious > diseases. The rapidly growing population of illegal aliens also set off a > resurgence of contagious diseases that had been nearly eradicated in the > USA. That medical screening was a joke ;P and there is actually a local non-profit clinic that seems pretty busy. It takes medicaid but according to the writeups most people pay cash and/or are subsidized by donations. > Again, I should have laid it out more plainly. There is no reason for the > United States to treat illegal immigrants from Mexico than they treat > illegal immigrants. well ok if the standard is that we don't need to be better that a corrupt dictatorship, then sure. > I notice you didn't bring up the argument about hospital closing in CA. Missed it. No information on the subject, pro or con. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:316888 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
