Democrat`s Son Reports Education Stressed By Immigration In Georgia

Most Americans are now tuned in to the
urgency of fixing our

broken immigration system. Both major parties
agree it is broken—they say. But

neither party has the will to go fix it.

As a Democrat, the problem really hits
me between the eyes! Most if not all Democrats running
for the Presidency want to go for

"comprehensive immigration reform"—which means a

huge new amnesty for illegal aliens, and a likely

free pass for many more in just a few years.

Fierce arguments against this amnesty
legislation are coming from everywhere—Hazleton,
PA,

Newark, NJ, Arizona, as the tragedies from

illegal alien crimes are being recorded regularly.
But still no action from our Federal Government, except
the promise of more

alien leniency by too many in

both parties. Maybe the

Iraq mess has sucked the air out of everything.

But on the home front, where ordinary
Americans

live and work, the evolving story gets very sad—and
very urgent.

Let me give but one small example, which
I learned about from my son, a 52 year old

electronic engineer, living with his family in a
suburb of

Atlanta. Two kids in school, a sizable

mortgage and being on the cutline age-wise for

outsourcing all make him and his wife keenly aware
of the stress that immigration is imposing on their
local area.

Let me tell you his story with his
statistics. He is very adroit with numbers and has done
his homework. What he reports is in the public record.
While immigration enthusiasts see endless good in
endless newcomers, real people in real life—not our
elected officials in Washington, you know, the ones
throwing our

tax dollars away in Iraq or on

boondoggles like the

Bridge to Nowhere—can plainly observe the effect of
immigration on their families.

My son picked out one issue which so
many

young families see as vital to their kids` future:

Education.

His example: In

Gwinnett Schools: Trailing Behind Growth, an
Atlanta Journal-Constitution report by Laura Diamond
(September 9th, 2007) showed one quarter of the schools
in his district are 20% or more

overcrowded—causing these districts to park students
in some 1376 trailers.

My depression-scarred generation had
permanent structures—not always perfect, but not
trailers.

Georgia was the fourth fastest growing
state in the United States, and accounted for the fourth
largest increase in numerical population size.

Many of these newcomers are illegal. And
they

bring in kids which the

system gets to absorb. But our tracking systems at
every level are so bad that we can`t know exactly how
many are illegal—which of course is just what the

Open Borders lobbyists want.

The US needs to get a handle on these
numbers. Estimates as wide as 12 to 20 million illegal
aliens here are simply unacceptable.

My son has lived in the suburbs of

Atlanta since 1991, a period of 16 years. During
that time the State of Georgia has added more

trailers to our schools,

gridlock to our commutes,

sprawl to the beautiful countryside, air pollution
to the skyline, and

taxes.

And so it has gone all over the USA`s

urban areas.

His Senator

Saxby Chambliss writes, "Immigration reform is
the most important issue facing our nation today."
My son was impressed that he and

Senator Isakson helped defeat the

Amnesty/Immigration Surge Bill

S. 1639.
But the

pressure from the grass roots could have well been
more important than their real convictions. Georgians
and all Americans better keep on top of them and their
cohorts in the US House of Representatives.

For example, right now, as you may be
aware, the Congress is at it again, despite the defeat
of S1639 on June 28th. This time the House of
Representatives is hard at work trying to slip another
open border bill through, the upcoming

Flake-Gutierrez amnesty bill H.R. 1645 (otherwise
known as the STRIVE Act).

Look at the numbers this engineer has
assembled for the State of Georgia.
SEE TABLE

Of course, it`s not reflected in these
numbers, but

we
know that the

alien multiethnic mix brings

language deficiencies and creates administrative
problems which do impact the learning experience.

Which means we are talking about more tax monies needed for education.

If I were a Georgian and I had kids in
this overcrowded system, I am not going to want another
100 million people added to the USA in the next 50
years. Bu this is what is

projected by the

Center for Immigration Studies, using updated US
Census Bureau data. We know we have plenty of people
now.

And yet here are my all Democrat
candidates

blatantly campaigning with the promise of

"comprehensive immigration reform",
a policy that would simply exacerbate
every problem now extant.

Thomas Jefferson and many others have warned about
the danger to our democracy if we do not keep the

education level of our populace high. Good
educational opportunities for everyone remains at the
heart of not only keeping our democracy, but our
technological lead as the

world industrializes and the

competition gets keener and keener.

Parents know this and are frightened by
the trends they see in situations such as exists in
Georgia.

Folks, The US Chamber of Commerce, the

US Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Hispanic
lobbying organizations such as

LULAC,

La Raza and others insist the US needs to add
millions of illegal aliens to our population.

But if you really care about the quality
of your children`s education, you must disagree.

Donald A. Collins [email
him], is a freelance writer living in Washington DC and a former long time member of the board of FAIR, the Federation for American Immigration Reform. His views are his own.