Research looks at costs, resources for educating immigrants in Carolinas

In the study “Breaking the Piggy Bank: How Illegal Immigration Is Sending Schools Into the Red,” the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a national anti-immigration group, estimated based on 2004 data that educational expenditures for illegal immigration were costing S.C. taxpayers $143.5 million dollars annually.

This cost was partially for educating students who were themselves illegally in the country ($59.8 million) and in part for the education those born in the United States to illegal residents ($83.7 million).

A University of South Carolina study, “The Economic and Social Implications of the Growing Latino Population in South Carolina,” acknowledges that some people fear Hispanic students increase education costs because they lack English skills, but English language learners represent only 2 percent of the total school population.”*

*From: www.myrtlebeachonline.com
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