Gov. Tim Walz (D), Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate, once boasted that large numbers of immigrants are overwhelming small towns in southern Minnesota, calling the situation an example of “beautiful diversity.” I called it.
In late 2019, Breitbart News reported extensively on Worthington, Minnesota. In this town of fewer than 14,000 residents, a surge in the number of immigrant children enrolling has forced taxpayers to raise tens of millions of dollars in taxes to expand the school district.
Much of the mass immigration in Worthington is due to the federal government's Unaccompanied Alien Child (UAC) program and the fact that the JBS hog slaughterhouse draws newly arrived immigrants to the area.
At the gubernatorial debate in October 2022, Walz said: boasted Despite the mass immigration that has flooded into Worthington over the decades, he thinks it's a good thing that dozens of languages are spoken in the town's schools.
“We're an immigrant nation that values that. We have more refugees per capita than any other state. It's not just a moral good, it's a good thing for our economic and cultural It's important for the future,” Walz said.
When I'm in Worthington, I see this beautiful diversity. 50 languages are spoken at the school. And you'll see all the storefronts filled with different types of food and different types of businesses. Minnesota needs to keep doing that. The governor's office can set the tone. [Emphasis added]
Since 2000, Worthington's foreign-born population has swelled to nearly 30 percent of the town's population. About 24 years ago, the town's foreign-born population was half what it is today.
Minnesota is among the states spending billions of dollars to teach American English to newly arrived immigrant children enrolled in school districts. That's all 75,000 Minnesota taxpayers who are English language learners paid approximately $1.2 billion to fund English as a Second Language (ESL) programs in 2020.
In June, a statewide survey of Minnesota public schools was conducted. revealed A worrying trend.
From 2019 to 2022, the percentage of fourth-graders in the state who are proficient in reading increased from 62% to nearly 70%. Similarly, the number of eighth-graders who are not good at math increased from 56 percent in 2019 to nearly 70 percent in 2022.
Perhaps most alarming, nearly one-third of all students in the state were considered “chronically absent” in the 2021-2022 school year, meaning they missed more than 10% of school days.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Please email jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
