The Biden-Harris administration’s weaponization of illegal migration through an open border policy is successfully overwhelming many American towns. Aside from threatening the safety of Americans, the crowding of small towns by illegal aliens is damaging the education of American children.
On Monday (October 21), the New York Post reported that the small city of Logansport in Indiana is getting swamped with illegal aliens from Haiti and dozens of other countries. This has raised safety concerns among the residents of the once peaceful town while the local children are dropping out of public schools due to migrant children burdening the resources.
While the exact number of the Biden-Harris aliens arriving in Logansport is not available, the Cass County Health Department placed the estimated number of recent migrants at around 11,000; the entire county’s population in 2020 was determined to be 38,000 people. NYP wrote:
What’s clear is that the number of Haitian immigrant students in the Logansport schools has increased 15-fold, from 14 in 2021 to 207 this year.
Logansport resident Nancy Baker, a mother of two, told the paper that the school administration has been directing more attention to the migrant children since these kids don’t speak English. Baker, disappointed and angry, told that this policy has caused local students to fall behind. Baker’s own daughter dropped out of the town’s high school because the teachers had no time for her or other English-speaking students.
Baker has also said that her daughter has been harassed by groups of migrant kids while walking outside. Another town resident, also a mother, has complained that Haitian migrants stare into her house from across the street. She also witnessed the migrants holding phones at her home as if recording with their phone cameras.
In 2017, the non-profit Negative Population Growth (NPG) published a report on the impact of immigration on America’s public schools. Its findings are no different from what is affecting the education of Logansport’s children. The report wrote:
One of the most direct consequences of having many immigrant children in the classroom might be that the teacher’s attention and time are diverted from the native children. Since immigrant children typically have a poorer command of the host country language, the teacher may need to spend more class time providing individual assistance.
Last year, the organization Education Week reported that the Biden-Harris administration notified schools and families that immigrant children and youth have the right to free public education, regardless of their immigration status.
The Dallas Morning News wrote on Tuesday (October 22) that advocates of free public education for migrant children fear that if Donald Trump wins the presidency in November 2024, conservatives may fight this right of illegal migrants that liberals have so far successfully enforced across the country.