Illegal Aliens Sleep Out to Enroll in School
Illegal Aliens Sleep Out to Enroll in School
By DML
on Aug 8, 2014
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STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. — Dozens of families with young children are sleeping outside to try to register their kids for school in DeKalb County. Some of the families say they have been outside DeKalb County School Board headquarters for a couple nights in a row, but their child has been turned away once so many students are registered.
Nearly 100 people lined up at the Stone Mountain headquarters by 4:30 a.m. Friday. Vilma Lopez and her 7-year-old daughter is a so-called “unaccompanied minor,” one of thousands of children who recently fled Central America and made their way to the U.S./Mexico border alone. She said she has spent three nights outside the headquarters, arriving Thursday night at 9:30 p.m.
“I want the opportunity for my daughter to study here in this county, but yesterday I had to go back to my house without the space, because according to these people, it’s only 50 people per day,” the mother said with the help of a translator. Lopez said she wants a better future for her daughter.
Not all of the children lined up to register are unaccompanied minors. Philippe Alexis said the school district told his wife, who showed up at 10 a.m. Thursday, she should try to arrive around 1 or 2 a.m. Friday and sleep there to secure her spot. He said his two teenage sons came to DeKalb County from Haiti.
“It doesn’t make sense to me,” Alexis said. “At least they could have somebody talk to us.” The district says most students register at their schools, but immigrants, refugees and children of non-English speaking families must register at the headquarters so they can be evaluated. The school district said the evaluation process takes time and their staffing only allows for 50- to 60 children each day.
The school district did not have a suggestion for the parents, but noted this is likely not related to the surge of unaccompanied minors. The district routinely consists of thousands of immigrant students, making up about 20 percent of enrollment. Students return to school in DeKalb County on Monday.
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Immigrant Students Flood Georgia School Registration Office
by Caroline May 13 Aug 2014, 11:18 AM PDT
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Immigrant students inundated a Georgia school district registration center this week seeking to sign up for classes.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) reports that nearly 200 families with immigrant students were waiting outside the DeKalb County registration facility early Monday morning.
“We got here, and there was a long line,” Sandra Nunez, head of the school district’s International Welcome Center, told AJC.
The report comes as the Department of Education has made it clear that illegal immigrant students are “entitled to” public eduction and the southern border is in crisis with tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors entering the country illegally — many of whom are later placed with a sponsor in the U.S. as they await immigration hearings.
School districts are not permitted to inquire about students’ immigration status.
Additionally, AJC reports that Thursday night people spent the night outside the registration facility believing a false rumor that they needed to sign up their students for classes by Friday. Students can, in fact, register year-round.
Nunez told AJC that last week the school registered about 300 immigrant students.
According to AJC, the DeKalb center can only handle about 60 new registrants a day. The registration office dealt with the run on the facility by handing out 180 numbered cards; the first 60 were to be processed Monday, the rest the following days.
Given the inability of school districts to request information about students’ immigration status, officials could not tell AJC whether the line was directly correlated with the ongoing crisis at the border.
Since October, more than 62,900 unaccompanied minors have been detained illegally entering the United States through the southern border. The vast majority of these youths are from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
AJC reports that Nunez said that the proportion of Spanish-speaking students is about the same as last year. According to the paper, DeKalb County usually sees about 2,000 new immigrants registered a year. This year to date the district has seen about 1,300.
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