Thread: Texas Budget Shortfall and illegal aliens

In 2001 the Texas legislature led by Rick Perry passed in-state tuition in direct violation of federal law and yet you see the federal government acting hand in hand with Mexico suing Arizona (for supposedly enforcing federal laws) for trying to protect it's citizens from the harm of illegal immigration. It seems the federal government only wants to sue states trying to slow illegal immigration.

From 2003 to 2005 the cost to Texas taxpayers paid for in-state tuition for illegal aliens jumped from 18 million to almost double 35 million dollars. At that rate of increase the yearly cost to Texas taxpayers at the present time could very well be in excess of 100 million dollars. If Texas legislators on the prowl to cut taxes were serious about protecting Texas citizens from undue tax burdens they should stop illegal in-state tuition for illegal aliens thus trimming 200 million from the expected budget short fall. This small step would stop the closing of any college and stop Texas from breaking federal law.

In 2004 Texas taxpayers paid almost 4 Billion dollars to educate both illegal alien children and the children born to illegal aliens through grade K-12, not including the many millions spent on their health, after school and food programs. If all cost associated with present day schooling of illegal aliens and the children of illegal aliens were taken into account it could easily total more than 8 billion dollars a year and could possibly top 10 to 12 billion taxpayer dollars annually.


Conservative 2006 estimates of the cost of illegal immigration to Texas taxpayers was placed at near 5 billion taxpayer dollars, in today's dollars it could be 10 billion taxpayer dollars. If you include cost for education, that number could easily top 22 billion taxpayer dollars. If immigration laws were enforced Texas might have a surplus instead of trying to close colleges and making steep cuts into our children's future. If Texas legislators are serious about protecting our citizens from undue taxes and reducing the budget shortfall, they would pass and enforce laws to force illegal aliens out of Texas, instead of attracting them.

Please make the time to contact your state rep. and ask that they support a balanced budget and our citizens children's future not that of the illegal aliens.

Thanks
Mr. Stacy


Find your rep. at link below.

http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/

Well today our staff found out our district is going to cut 300 teachers minimum. All school budgets will be cut 12%. All state funded grants will be cut as well as advance placement programs for our gifted and talented kids and class sizes will be increased. We expect to lose anywhere from $21 million to $56 million and we are a small suburban school in the Houston area. Not one time did anyone mention all the millions being spend on ESL, LEP etc etc. Today our who staff had to hear another lecture about getting re-certified in TELPAS (Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System) so we can grade writing samples from LEP students and determine if they still need to stay in the program. This is something every certified teacher in Texas has to do once a year and the expense of the State paying for everything including a substitute teacher for the day. Quite and expense. No thing spared to educate the children of illegals and anchor babies. But we are taking away the educational opportunities of children of American taxpayers and willing to put 100, 000 teachers out of work.

Imagine what will happen when 100,000 professional educated teachers are without work. This will create a devastating landslide in the Texas economy plus the tax base will be much less due to the high unemployment created by these layoffs. Not to mention the lasting effects of robbing an education from a generation of children.

Originally Posted by bigtex

All state funded grants will be cut as well as advance placement programs for our gifted and talented kids and class sizes will be increased.

Not one time did anyone mention all the millions being spend on ESL.

Quite and expense. No thing spared to educate the children of illegals and anchor babies. But we are taking away the educational opportunities of children of American taxpayers and willing to put 100, 000 teachers out of work.

Blooming Idiot Bloomberg is threatening to layoff a thousand teachers here too and ESL ones are also EXCLUDED! The SCOTUS decision in Plyer v. Doe needs to be revisited. It plainly stated that mandating education for IA children had no negative effect on citizen children and the costs would be minimal and not a drain on the tax paying public.

OH HOW WRONG THEY WERE!

How is it that some one as intelligent as a SC judge couldn't see the invitation to abuse our educational system they were creating with such a ruling? Basically telling migrant workers they no longer had to leave their families home.

To be honest I must include the fact that the decision was split 5-4, so there were four judges with foresight.

MrStacy,

Where are you getting those figures from? When I write my rep I want to
be able to back them up.

Def

February 11, 2011
Rick Perry says Democrats 'hurting the school children of Texas' with education funding impasse

Speaking on enemy turf (a.k.a. Washington), Texas Gov. Rick Perry this morning ramped up his rhetoric in the politically charged standoff over federal education funding for Texas.

Addressing the Texas State Society in Washington, Perry blamed Washington, Democrats and specifically liberal Democratic congressman Lloyd Doggett of Austin for depriving Texas of "$830 million that should be going now — today — to the teachers and school children of the state of Texas."

Doggett, who authored a measure last year designed to require Perry and the Texas legislature to use the federal education jobs money to keep Texas teachers on the job rather than using it to substitute for state tax dollars.

But Perry said Democrats were doing it to retaliate against Republicans who run Texas.

"I think it's a very punitive reason it was put on," he said.

Doggett's proposal singled out Texas and required Perry to certify that the money would save teachers' jobs "is hurting the children of the state of Texas," Perry declared.

Yesterday, as the state's entire Democratic congressional delegation sent a letter to the Republican governor asking for a truce to allow the warring factions to work "to constructively help our schools to avoid closures and layoffs."

The Democrats said they'd be willing to work with Perry to file the paperwork necessary for Texas to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in federal education aid.

"While there does not appear to be any policy reason for your failing to complete a proper application for federal funding," the letter stated, "we continue to welcome any suggestions that you may have regarding how to accomplish our sole objective — seeing that the $830 million in education dollars that we voted for actually increases resources available for Texas public education."

The political significance of the letter is that all nine remaining members of the Democratic delegation — including Blue Dog Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Laredo, a former Perry appointee — signed the letter.

Tuesday, the state's united GOP congressional delegation introduced a proposal to repeal a 2010 education-funding provision that targeted Perry. At today's breakfast, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Ennis, promised that the House would repeal the Doggett Amendment soon — perhaps as early as next week.

After the speech, Perry remained on Capitol Hill to personally lobby House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Eric Cantor, R-Va., to quickly overturn the Democratic provision.

In Austin, Democrats accused Perry of playing politics with the school children of Texas.

"While the legislature addresses a $27 billion budget shortfall that could eliminate pre-K for Texas kids, force Grandma out of the nursing home and cost tens of thousands their jobs, Rick Perry's 'solution' to these real emergencies is get away to play politics and leave the rest of us behind," said Texas Democratic Party spokeswoman Kirsten Gray.

Perry Education Letter 2-10-11

http://www.scribd.com/doc/48601477/Perr ... er-2-10-11


http://blogs.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/0 ... lloyd.html

My son is an exceptionally bright kid. We've signed him up for a
particularly specialized school that only accepts so many students a
year. He's very excited because he'll be able to focus on things in math
and science that are of interest to him. He or another kid like him could
be the next Einstien or Stephen Hawking.

It would be ashamed if that school's programs were shut down because
we have to make sure Illegal aliens get their free breakfast and ESL
classes. Our state and our country are giving up their most valuable
resource in the name of multiculturalism.

Def

Bloomberg has his own agenda and alwasy has. He is an anti gun nut who wants to have every gun taken away from the public. His agenda on immigration is one of amnisty and support of the illegals in his state. He wants to boost his voter foundation in getting more illegals the right to vote. He favors educating illegals and cutting services to legal citizens of NY.

Originally Posted by BillCunnane

Bloomberg has his own agenda and alwasy has. He is an anti gun nut who wants to have every gun taken away from the public. His agenda on immigration is one of amnisty and support of the illegals in his state. He wants to boost his voter foundation in getting more illegals the right to vote. He favors educating illegals and cutting services to legal citizens of NY.

It's not just Bloomy, every mayor since Koch has gone along with this BS! It was Koch that declared NYC a sanctuary from from the 86 IRCA laws in 88, barely a year and a half after it was passed.

Originally Posted by defaoite62

My son is an exceptionally bright kid. We've signed him up for a
particularly specialized school that only accepts so many students a
year. He's very excited because he'll be able to focus on things in math
and science that are of interest to him. He or another kid like him could
be the next Einstien or Stephen Hawking.

It would be ashamed if that school's programs were shut down because
we have to make sure Illegal aliens get their free breakfast and ESL
classes. Our state and our country are giving up their most valuable
resource in the name of multiculturalism.

Def

Its seems that the trend is to ignore the brightest kids and turn all of our attention and resources to teaching children of illegals.

Originally Posted by defaoite62

MrStacy,

Where are you getting those figures from? When I write my rep I want to
be able to back them up.

Def

To find a lot of the figures I just did a google search for (cost Texas taxpayers instate tuition illegal aliens), (cost Texas taxpayers educate illegal aliens children illegal aliens) and (cost to Texas taxpayers for all illegal aliens).

The estimate of 100 million per year was mine based on a google search article that stated instate tuition for illegal aliens almost doubled from 03 to 05 to 35 million dollars.

I was unable to come up with any figures on state dollars that given as grants to illegal aliens, which could also be estimated at 10 to 15 million per year.

One thin dime is to much to reward illegal aliens to come break our laws and live off the taxpayers.

If ALL OUR laws were enforced Texas might not have a budget shortfall.

These illegal aliens are costing Texas taxpayers billions on top of billions each and every year. Mexico has billions on top of billions from just their mineral wealth and they want to keep it that way by sending their poor north telling them it was land stolen from them.

NO cuts for the education of illegal aliens have been considered. The present education for citizen's children is bad (one big factor being illegal aliens and the children of illegal aliens) and will only get worse as Texas legislators continue to take away bright futures as they pamper and educate the children of illegal aliens.