What are the costs?

A Washington Post by Daniel de Vise like many liberal mainstream media news organizations on illegal immigration puts out some smokey journalism. The latest is about how little English students attending schools in the DC area know. Of course there is no mention of illegal immigration in the article or of the costs to the legal taxpayers who pay for the schools. Here are some of the money quotes:

"This year, for the first time, more than half the students at the Silver Spring school spoke limited English. It's a milestone for the school and for the Montgomery County school system, where the term "English language learners" was seldom heard before the middle of the last decade."

A milestone for the school? Is that a good thing to have half the student population speaking limited or no English?

"The population of students learning English is rising briskly in school systems in the Washington suburbs. Elementary school students with limited English proficiency (LEP) now number 20,000 in Fairfax, 10,000 in Montgomery, 9,000 in Prince William and 8,000 in Prince George's counties. Just seven years ago, those four counties accounted for 23,000 elementary-grade LEP students."

Thanks to George Bush, open border Democrats and cheap labor businesses who allowed the illegal immigrant population to soar in this country. The burden to pay for additional English language programs falls on the middle class taxpayers of the school districts which the article makes no mention of.

"Students often arrive at Highland unable to read, write or speak fluently in Spanish or English. In response, the school has placed a growing emphasis on pre-kindergarten and Head Start, which, as of this year, is a full-day program. Sixty of this year's 97 kindergartners attended pre-K programs at Highland."

Guess who is paying for these programs? The illegals? Guess again.

"Families sometimes live three or four to a home."

So even though the house where the families live pays some school taxes. With three or more families are living in the house the increased burden falls on the legal one family households in the district. Hola suckers!