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   From: fool@whitehouse.us   
      
   What was a crisis on America's southern border is now turning   
   into a major challenge for school administrators across the   
   country.   
      
   Tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors have crossed into the   
   U.S. in recent months, and those not being held in health   
   department-run facilities have in many cases been sent to live   
   with sponsors, who are typically extended family members. As the   
   new school year begins, the children, who in many cases don't   
   speak English and have limited reading skills, are showing up   
   for class.   
      
   This has raised questions in local districts about the strain it   
   could put on teachers.   
      
   "They may have only gone to 2nd or 3rd grade, have limited   
   literacy in their first language. That does create a different   
   kind of teaching impact on a school than our traditional   
   immigrant families," Anne Arundel County, Md., administrator   
   Kelly Reider told Fox affiliate WBFF.   
      
   Other officials, including the mayor of Lynn, Mass., have   
   traveled to Washington seeking answers from the Obama   
   administration.   
      
   "I love the fact that Lynn is a diverse community," Mayor Judith   
   Flanagan Kennedy said. "By speaking out about this, I have been   
   called a racist, I have been called a hater. That is not the   
   case. I'm simply looking at this from the point of view of the   
   economic impact it has had on my city."   
      
   Her community in Essex County has recently taken in 204 of the   
   unaccompanied children, many of whom presumably would be   
   entering school.   
      
   New York's Nassau County, on Long Island, has taken in 1,096 of   
   these children.   
      
   And the Houston-area Harris County in Texas has received 2,866,   
   according to numbers provided by the Department of Health and   
   Human Services.   
      
   Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has complained that Obama Cabinet   
   members promised to keep state officials in the loop, yet he   
   says Louisiana received no warning of the influx.   
      
   "In my state, the Obama administration sent over a thousand   
   children without telling us, without telling social services,   
   without telling the schools," Jindal said on "The Laura Ingraham   
   Show."   
      
   Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill claim the administration   
   has gotten lax when it comes to even verifying the backgrounds   
   of young illegal immigrants trying to stay.   
      
   "I really think that 95 percent of these illegal minors are in   
   the country to stay. The administration is not serious about   
   sending them back home to their families they left behind,"   
   Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith told Fox News. "They're going   
   to be enrolled in our schools, that's for certainty, and that's   
   going to be an additional strain on the resources there."   
      
   He alleged the administration "is not double-checking to make   
   sure that what we're being told is accurate."   
      
   Separately, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-   
   Va., and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, top Republican on the   
   Senate Judiciary Committee, on Friday wrote to Homeland Security   
   Secretary Jeh Johnson expressing concerns about what they   
   believe is a fraud loophole.   
      
   The lawmakers say immigration officials are not verifying   
   documentation that is presented to them as part of the Deferred   
   Action for Childhood Arrivals program (or DACA), which gives a   
   reprieve to some young illegal immigrants who came to the U.S.   
   as children and generally applies to those who were already in   
   the country.   
      
   They said the administration effectively has made it optional   
   for officials to verify certain information given by applicants.   
      
   President Obama, though, told reporters the numbers right now at   
   the border are trending in the right direction. "The number of   
   apprehensions in August are down from July, and they're actually   
   lower than they were August of last year. Apprehensions in July   
   were half of what they were in June," Obama said.   
      
   But Smith says the problem hasn't been solved, and he expects   
   more surges at the border.   
      
   "There is a downturn with all categories of illegal immigrants   
   in the summer. It's the hottest month, it's probably the most   
   dangerous time to cross hundreds of miles of desert, and so this   
   is not unusual," Smith said. "I do think there will be an uptick   
   again."   
      
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