Undocumented students in D.C. cost taxpayers millions

Undocumented students in D.C. cost taxpayers millions « Watchdog.org:
"WASHINGTON, D.C.- It costs an estimated $86.8 million a year to educate undocumented students in D.C., based on a data analysis by Watchdog.org.
There are about 4,065 undocumented children in D.C., according to 2012 data from the Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project.
With D.C. spending $21,347 per student, the total amount spent on undocumented children comes to over $86 million a year.
Others estimate it costs even more to educate students in the U.S. illegally because of Limited English Proficiency classes and free and reduced lunch programs.
One advocacy group opposed to illegal immigration, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), estimates that D.C. pays $186 million a year to education undocumented students.
Bob Dane, a spokesperson for FAIR, said this number will increase by $7.4 million due to the influx of over 50,000 unaccompanied children that crossed the border earlier this year.
“This is an unfunded mandate,” he said.
“It was unbudgeted, and they were transferred at the very last minute…
The illegal immigrants were not on the curriculum this year.”"