{"id":2220510,"date":"2024-04-14T05:02:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mass-release-of-children-from-border-has-put-unprecedented-strain-on-us-schools\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T05:07:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:07:40","slug":"mass-release-of-children-from-border-has-put-unprecedented-strain-on-us-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mass-release-of-children-from-border-has-put-unprecedented-strain-on-us-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"The large-scale release of children at the border has placed an &#8216;unprecedented&#8217; burden on US schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmass-release-of-children-from-border-has-put-unprecedented-strain-on-us-schools%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2220510&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The mass influx of immigrant \u2064children at the \u2063US southern border, under President\u2062 Joe Biden, has overwhelmed public schools nationwide. This unexpected surge \u2064poses challenges for educators and strains already tight budgets. The impact is significant, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/retail-theft-delivers-an-economic-blow-for-companies-and-communities\/\" title=\"Retail theft hurts businesses and communities economically.\">prompting urgent calls<\/a> for resources to support these newly arrived students. The surge of immigrant children at the \u2063US southern border under President Joe Biden has strained public schools\u200d nationwide, challenging educators\u2064 and budgets. Urgent calls for resources are needed to support these newly arrived students \u2062due to the significant impact of this unexpected influx.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Tens of thousands of immigrant children who crossed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/border-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>southern border<\/a> alone and were released to an adult sponsor in the United States have been enrolled in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>public schools<\/a> nationwide under President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>, putting educators in a bind.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past three years, more than 8 million people have been encountered at the southern border, including nearly 500,000 unaccompanied children, which does not include children who arrived with a family member.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of so many children arriving in the country and enrolling in schools nationwide has not been insignificant, according to immigration policy experts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the majority of U.S. schools receiving unaccompanied minors and other immigrant children are not new to serving this population, many educators have described the number of newcomers arriving in the 2023-24 school year as unprecedented,\u201d said Julie Sugarman, associate director of K-12 education research at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Children who come across the southern border are protected from immediate removal in most cases and will be transferred from Border Patrol custody to the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS will then look for a relative or parent in the U.S. to release the child as he or she awaits immigration proceedings years down the road, though the child may be let go to an unrelated adult if a family member cannot be found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have a right \u2014 just like other children living in their community \u2014 to enroll in local schools regardless of their or their sponsors\u2019 actual or perceived immigration or citizenship status,\u201d the HHS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acf.hhs.gov\/orr\/about\/ucs\/services-provided\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>website<\/a> states. \u201cState laws also require children to attend school up to a certain age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This particular influx of children into the country has caught educators by surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Since Biden took office in early 2021, Department of Homeland Security data show that 464,000 children have crossed the border alone.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 464,000, roughly 391,000 children have been released into the country between fiscal 2021 and January 2024. Fiscal 2021 began shortly before the November 2020 election while President Donald Trump was still in office.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Public Schools had registered between 12,000 and 14,000 immigrant children who arrived directly from the southern border, Democratic Alderman Raymond Lopez told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. That represents roughly 4% of the district\u2019s 323,000 student body population.<\/p>\n<p>As of January, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/amp\/news\/new-york-city-schools-migrant-strain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>34,000<\/a> of New York City\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/office-of-the-mayor\/news\/870-23\/mayor-adams-chancellor-banks-celebrate-first-increase-nyc-public-school-enrollment-eight#:~:text=For%20the%202023%2D2024%20school,the%20nation's%20largest%20school%20district.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>915,000<\/a> students enrolled were immigrant children who arrived from the border, roughly 3% of all students and not including illegal immigrant children who entered the country during the Trump and Obama administrations.<\/p>\n<p>A new report from the conservative Washington think tank the Heritage Foundation concluded that New York spent millions of dollars to educate thousands of newly enrolled children from the border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn New York, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acf.hhs.gov\/orr\/grant-funding\/unaccompanied-children-released-sponsors-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>8,477 unaccompanied alien children<\/a> were sent to sponsors, according to [Office of Refugee Resettlement] data. New York spends <a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/programs\/digest\/d23\/tables\/dt23_236.75.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>$28,261 per pupil<\/a>, making the total additional cost to taxpayers close to $240 million for one year,\u201d Heritage concluded in its February <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/education\/report\/the-consequences-unchecked-illegal-immigration-americas-public-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>School budgets are set the March before a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-mayor-bowser-requires-negative-coronavirus-tests-for-public-school-students\/\" title=\"D.C. Mayor Bowser Requires Negative Coronavirus Tests for Public School Students\">school year begins<\/a>, roughly six months ahead of time, and \u201cadministrators are stretched to accommodate new arrivals without having access to additional funds,\u201d Sugarman said. <\/p>\n<p>The \u201cnearly constant flow of new arrivals\u201d is difficult to manage because each student must be assessed for English language proficiency and academic level, then provided an orientation to the school system and new routines, Sugarman said. Most children do not arrive with school transcripts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second challenging area for schools is that more new arrivals are coming with greater educational and socioemotional needs than educators have seen in the past. Many students \u2014 especially teenagers \u2014 arrive with limited or interrupted formal education, requiring intensive support, and others have trauma from experiences in their home country or during travel,\u201d Sugarman explained.<\/p>\n<p>Although schools work with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-operatives-control-voter-rolls-in-31-states-report-shows\/\" title=\"Democratic Operatives Control Voter Rolls In 31 States, Report Shows\">social services agencies<\/a> and nonprofit organizations to meet the language needs of students, qualified bilingual staff \u201cmay be in short supply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout half of English Learner newcomers speak languages other than Spanish, so finding appropriate interpreters or training staff to use telephone interpretation services for those families can be more challenging,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Podkul, vice president for policy and advocacy at the child immigrant advocacy group Kids in Need of Defense, or KIND, said the U.S. government must consider how it is handling the arrivals of unaccompanied minors in the first place, including quickly adjudicating children\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat can the U.S. be doing to help build child protection systems in these countries where kids are coming from so that they don\u2019t have to leave in the first place?\u201d Podkul said in a phone call. \u201cHow do we quickly get to the bottom of their story and figure out, \u2018Is this really a child in need of international protection or is this a child who can be returned and go back to their community of origin and might just need a little bit of support to be successful there, whether that\u2019s education or employment opportunities?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of immigrant children crossing the southern border and placed with adult sponsors in the US are now attending public schools nationwide, posing challenges for educators under President Joe Biden. In the last three years, over 8 million individuals have been encountered at the border, with close to 500,000 among them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2655,"featured_media":2220511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AP23250562910009-1024x590.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2220510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/AP23250562910009-1024x590.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2220510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2220511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}