Speaking for the first time since his conviction in a New York court, President Donald Trump highlighted the negative impact President Joe Biden’s border crisis is having on America’s primary and secondary schools.
Speaking at Trump Tower in New York City, the former president slammed Biden for the ongoing border crisis and the dire consequences it is having on our schools.
“Who the hell wants to open their borders and allow people to come in from countries they don’t know, places they don’t know, languages they don’t know, languages they’ve never heard,” Trump said. Said“We have students in schools who are teaching languages that most people have never even heard of.”
“It’s not an unknown language like Spanish or French or Russian,” he continued. “We have people coming from all over the world, and many of them are not good people. We have a lot of terrorists, record levels of terrorism, record levels of terrorism coming into our country. They’ve never seen anything like this.”
The remarks came at the end of a symbolic speech at the same venue where he announced his presidential candidacy in 2016.
While a former president and presumed 2024 Republican presidential candidate laments the pressure Biden’s border crisis is putting on our schools, even the media points out that not only are waves of immigrants from all corners of the globe forcing states and cities to spend billions of dollars on schools, but that many of these immigrant children are being undereducated by poor efforts at education by their local school districts.
Countless illegal immigrants are flooding into the country, putting a huge strain on schools and often putting them in difficult situations. The Wall Street Journal It pointed out last week.
of journal The May 25 article began by writing about a “Haitian Creole-speaking” child from Haiti who attended a U.S. school in Stoughton, Massachusetts. The child could not read, write, or speak English and was struggling in school. The article argued that her teachers had had to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to help her learn, which inevitably took time away from other children.
The article also reported that the number of non-English speaking students in Stoughton has more than doubled to over 500, forcing the district to spend at least $500,000 on special accommodations for these students.
The article states that Stoughton is by no means an isolated case, and similar situations are worsening across the country, especially in the nation’s largest cities, where more than a million children are flooding into the nation’s schools, many of whom cannot speak English, are illiterate and have little to no formal education.
That’s to say nothing of the harrowing lives many of them led before coming to the U.S. “They’ve lived in two, three, four countries, in some cases before they’re even five years old,” Stoughton School Principal Joseph Baeta told the paper.
Thursday, Axios Published A map showing where the Biden administration has sent the estimated 550,000 unaccompanied children who appear to have walked across the US border. And that doesn’t include the hundreds of thousands of children who came here with their parents. And all of these children are now flooding into US schools.
Map where unaccompanied migrant children are going… https://t.co/mzemcvED1h
— Steve Ferguson (@lsferguson) May 31, 2024
Still, as Trump pointed out, Stoughton is a perfect example of the communication chaos that the school faces, with the paper noting that “students there now speak more than 20 languages.”
It’s bad enough that young children enter the first, second and third grades with no English language skills, but thousands of non-English speaking teenagers enter our schools and end up graduating with only one to four years of schooling. Stoughton teacher Tice Payne said these kids are desperately “defying the odds,” trying to get at least some education before they’re dumped ill-prepared to play a useful role in our society.
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