Even though we are bombarded with scandal and the exposure of nefarious activity, we must not lose sight of the battle at hand. Bank robbers have sometimes exploded a bomb or started a fire or created some other sort of diversion immediately prior to their robbery. This administration is chock full of diversionary tactics. It is trickery all the time with the Chicago Gang.
Let's do some ball park math. According to the Cato Institute it cost about $13k to educate a child k-12 in Virginia in 2010. You can bet that price has gone up since then.
We don't know how many illegal immigrants are in America. 10 million? 20 million? A large number of these are school children. Free education is a huge incentive for illegal immigration. If there are five million illegal immigrant children--and there are probably more--they are costing state and local governments $65 billion/year or roughly $1.3 billion per state.
I like to use Massachusetts as a numerically typical state because it holds roughly two per cent of the US population. Conveniently, Massachusetts has a budget of about $33 billion. Thus, if there are 5 million illegal alien school kids and Massachusetts has their proportionate share (they exceed the norm, trust me on that one) their public education will account for 4% of their annual budget. 4% !
That 4% does not include other forms of freebies such as free health care, subsidized housing, in-state college tuition and those ubiquitous food stamps. Nor does it include the cost of incarceration and prosecution of undocumented criminals. Illegal aliens are a drain on the economy. Even if they ultimately pay a fine I doubt if it will cover a $169,000 education tab for each child.
We need to resist Rubio and Flake and Ryan with every morsel of our resolve. Our states are teetering on bankruptcy they want to do what? In the face of IRS/NSA/DOJ/EPA bullying, we cannot let the dreaded immigration bill slip by us. In the words of Chico Esquilla, "Keep your eye on the ball."
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