Oklahoma’s high elected schooling official despatched a “demand letter” to Vice President Kamala Harris that basically served as an bill for what the unlawful immigration disaster beneath her tenure overseeing the border has price Sooner State colleges.
“As the statewide elected Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Oklahoma and the Executive Officer of the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE), it is my duty to ensure that the resources allocated to our public schools are counted for and used in the most effective manner possible for the benefit of Oklahoma students’ education,” Ryan Walters wrote to Harris.
In August, Walters tasked the division to work with faculty districts to calculate the monetary influence borne by taxpayers on unlawful immigrant minors. That evaluation resulted in an estimate of $474.9 million, which he demanded of Harris within the letter.
“This demand amount is, by necessity, an estimate because only your administration knows the true number of illegal immigrants crossing this nation’s borders and the actual costs of illegal immigration,” he stated, calling for Harris to conduct a doubtlessly extra correct accounting of the prices incurred by Oklahoma colleges.
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“Under your supervision, the costs in education due to illegal immigration have risen astronomically. Your failed oversight and efforts are a direct cause of the current crises Oklahoma and other states now face. Oklahoma taxpayers, schools, teachers, and parents should not bear the burden of your failings. They deserve better,” Walters stated.
In a Tuesday interview, Walters stated the border disaster is “crippling” Oklahoma colleges, and that paying for these minors’ schooling is the “largest unfunded mandate in the country.”
He stated Oklahoma has been the primary state to each calculate the schooling prices of the border disaster and to really invoice the Biden-Harris administration for the fiscal disparity.
In August, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an government order directing hospitals to gather price data in a similar way, for sufferers “not lawfully present in the United States.”
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a rally in Houston, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (AP Photograph/Susan Walsh)
“Since she’s been the border czar, she’s failed our country,” Walters stated. “Open borders has had an impact on every aspect of society, but it has overrun our schools, decimated our families. And it is absolutely time to hold them accountable for that.”
Walters stated he invitations different states to observe swimsuit and calculate the actual prices of unlawful immigration, to indicate the true results of the disaster on the nation.
Harris’ workplace didn’t reply to a request for remark.
When requested if he expects a response or a remittance, Walters stated the administration has lengthy been “unresponsive to the needs of all Americans.”
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A Customs and Border Safety patch is displayed on the arm of an officer on Sept. 28, 2024, in San Diego, California. (Kevin Carter/Getty Photos)
“I know that they’ve magically pretended like they’ve cared about it here in the last 60 days of their campaign. But the reality is, as you’ve seen story after story, data point after data point, and they’ve ignored them,” he stated.
