Pam Slater, a San Diego County supervisor, called the current system "a travesty" that is bankrupting state and local governments. Educating 355,000 citizen-children of illegal aliens cost California taxpayers $1.7 billion in fiscal 1995-96, for example. An offer of financial support to children born in the United States is far too great a lure," she said. "This loophole must be closed (p. 5)."

Educating illegal immigrants' children is reflected in the test scores of the border state public schools, and other school systems with a large population of illegal immigrants. While federal and state law prohibits the collecting of information that would specifically target Hispanic children as the problem behind low test scores, one might conclude that for some school districts the language barrier might contribute to those low test scores.

However, while we cannot pin point language of illegal immigrants as specifically reducing test scores, we can look at a peripheral problem: the movement by advocates of that population to (Kalmar, Tomas M., 2000, p. NG). When we look at the move by the Hispanic community and the advocates of legalizing the millions of illegal aliens in the country, we can presume that it will go the way of the Black community's move to introduce ebonics to the California school system. In other words, this will not happen.

However, it is time for Mexico to step up to the plate and begin offsetting the cost of educating its young children.
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States Pay $7.4 Billion to Educate Illegals; Report Notes Drain on U.S. Children. (2003, August 21). The Washington Times, p. A04. Retrieved March 13, 2008, from Questia database: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5001985430

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