Speech #1030136258

Yet this amendment would add to the very problem those people bemoan. It tells local educational institutions that they ought to take precious resources which ought to be focused on educating children and instead divert those resources to producing more paper which they can send to the Federal Government and other administrative agencies of Government. This amendment will not do anything to stop illegal immigration. It will simply impose added datagathering burdens to no real positive purpose. It will probably discourage some immigrants from sending their kids to school out of fear of being reported. Let me tell you what I resent as much as anything. In my home town. I have thousands of refugees. They place a great new burden on the local school district in my home county. but my home city and my home county did not establish the Immigration policy under which they came to the United States. the Federal Government did. Yet the local districts are being left holding the bag in terms of costs. The Federal Government has welshed on its responsibility to provide support for those Immigrants. and the Federal Government is certainly not meeting its responsibilities to local districts if they are asking local districts to turn schools into policing agencies because a Federal agency has not done its own job. To me. the only real result of this amendment will be that it diverts needed resources from the classroom to administrative procedures. and it will. In the process.