What could be the consequences of unsatisfactory pre-elementary education?

Is illegal immigration destroying opportunities for our children's education?

• "Exclusive: Has Illegal Immigration’s Effect on Education Become the ‘Third Rail’ of Politics?" Vincent Gioia http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2736/pub_detail.asp Traditionally, Social Security has been the “third rail” of politics but we now have another third rail – illegal immigration and education. Politicians step all over themselves asking for more and more money to be spent on education; ignoring the fact that money alone does not make for a good public education. Another thing we are not allowed to mention in a discussion about public education quality and costs is the impact of illegal immigration; otherwise we are labeled “racists.” The United States has the world's most generous illegal immigration agenda. For immigrants, California is their primary destination. And keeping our border with Mexico open allows an unlimited number of illegal aliens access to education and medical care. Partially because of illegal immigration, California has an astronomical $42-44 billion deficit. As a consequence, many school districts are laying off teachers and other school personnel. Stated another way, the failure to pay attention to the obvious affect illegal immigration has on California's social services means that some of your children's teachers in California will soon be unemployed. It must be remembered that, for the most part, illegal households using programs like free school lunch or Medicaid are receiving these benefits on behalf of U.S.-born children, who under current law are awarded citizenship at birth. Of course, the costs of providing services to these children are very real for taxpayers and result from illegals having been allowed to enter and stay in the country. And having the federal government feed or provide medical care to their children is an enormous benefit to illegal aliens. Thus, in considering the consequences for public coffers, counting the costs of these programs is necessary; otherwise one would gain a very false sense of illegal immigration's present costs. The really sad thing is that despite California’s huge outlay for education it has one of the worse public education systems and results in the country. Facts are terrible things to those that prefer to think in political correct terms. English as a second language, massive class sizes and increased costs of educating illegal aliens surely have had a huge impact on these rankings. For those of you who just love the "these people just looking for a job" justification to ignore illegal immigration, this shows the devastating impact they are having on the educational system. Is it worth destroying a whole generation of our citizen children’s educational years simply to have lower cost produce or cheap gardeners?

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  They need to change the law so that children born to parents who are here illegally are not citizens. Or if people have a problem with that, get the word out that the illegal parents will be deported, but their children will be taken from them and kept here as citizens of this country. Either way it should curb the insane number of "anchor babies" and parents who then feel entitled to live here illegally. These are the same parents who don't take any interest in their children's education because they don't understand what's going on and/or don't want anyone to know they are illegal and possibly deport them. With lack of educational support at home, plus the fact that they typically live in poorer areas, they have a much higher rate of gang membership as they hit their pre-teen years. Jackey: The difference is that Irish and other European immigrants wanted to join and blend in with the American culture. A large majority of the Hispanic immigrants are trying to recreate their home country in America with no interest in blending in with the culture..