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FIRST ON FOX NEWS DIGITAL: The state of Oklahoma is suing the Biden administration for unleashing “massive chaos” in the state’s public school system over four years of open border policies.
The lawsuit, filed by the Oklahoma State Department of Education and Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, targets President Joe Biden. Department of National Security i Immigration and Customs Control Agency. It calls for the Biden administration to reimburse Oklahoma for the roughly $470 million it had to spend on the education of thousands of illegal immigrant children over the past four years.
Walters, who filed the lawsuit today in Oklahoma’s Western District Court, told Fox News Digital that public schools are “overrun with illegal immigrants” who are stretching the system’s resources and limiting opportunities for children of citizens who pay taxes.
Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters speaks during a special meeting of the state Board of Education, April 12, 2023, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
According to the data collected by the Oklahoma State Department of Educationthe state spends approximately $11,000 per student per year and the number of unaccompanied migrant children placed in the state is nearly 3,000.
Walters said Oklahoma schools are struggling to provide adequate resources for immigrant children, such as certified teachers for students with limited English proficiency, transportation and individualized education plans, and that these challenges have an impact on long term in school budgets and the quality of education. for all students in the state.
“It’s really chaos in the school system. And who’s suffering here? It’s the students,” Walters said. “Joe Biden i Kamala Harris we did it on purpose and here we have students caught in the crossfire. We need to protect them and we need to take back our states to educate our children.”
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FILE – A migrant carries his ICE paperwork after being dropped off at a church that serves as a shelter for migrants seeking asylum, after they were released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), on May 19, 2019 in El Paso Texas. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Although President-elect Donald Trump scheduled to take office next week, said Oklahoma taxpayers are still burdened with the costs of the Biden administration’s failed border policies.
He pointed out one NBC interview with PJ Lechleitner, outgoing ICE directorwho said the Biden administration “absolutely” should have acted sooner to close the border.
Walters said, “They knew it was happening and they didn’t do anything about it.”
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“Last week we had Joe Biden’s top ICE director admit that they allowed this to happen, that they allowed the law to be broken … and frankly, they’re very clear that these orders came from the top, they came from of Joe Biden and the border czar Kamala Harris,” he said. “We can’t allow them to just skate off into the sunset and say, ‘President Trump, here you go, he says, I’m sorry, we just caused this massive chaos in your schools, in your state, in your communities.’ These people must be held accountable for the chaos they brought to our children and our families and that is what this lawsuit will do.”
US President Donald Trump speaks with US Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott (R) as they take part in a ceremony commemorating the 200th mile of the border wall on the international border with Mexico in San Luis , Arizona, June 23, 2020. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
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Walters called on other states to join Oklahoma’s lawsuit against the Biden administration, saying “every state needs to understand what illegal immigration has done to their school system, it’s done to their states.” .
“This is the future we’re talking about; we’re trying to get education back on track,” he said.
“That’s how you change that trajectory. That’s how you get the Trump administration the support it needs by holding the current administration accountable, getting that data, getting that information,” he continued, concluding, “In Oklahoma, We” will not tolerate Kamala Harris and Joe Biden allowing our schools to be overrun by illegal immigrants and with this lawsuit, we will hold them accountable to the taxpayers of the state of Oklahoma.”
