Influx of migrant children costs the public school system an estimated $2 billion per year: report
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CBP has encountered more than 470,000 unaccompanied migrant children since Joe Biden became president in 2021, which has likely cost the public education system billions of dollars.
The CBP encountered 145,474 accompanied and unaccompanied minors nationwide in FY 2023. Based on the national average spending of $16,345 per student, if each such child enrolled in public schools, it would increase national education spending by more than $2 billion for one year, according to the Heritage report's facesheet. Kendall Tietz is a Production Assistant with Fox News Digital.
Heritage scholars and two of the report's authors, Lindsey Burke and Lora Ries, told Fox News Digital that American parents already have enough to worry about regarding their kids' education with "woke curriculum and hyper-sexual content that the left is pushing."