Much has been written about the large numbers of unaccompanied minors illegally entering the United States. However there are a myriad of questions that need to be asked and answered about the effect that this will have on the United States. Here are a couple of dozen:
Who Is Paying?
- Are American taxpayers covering the $1.4 billion to $2 billion costs to care for children illegally entering the United States while still continuing to provide hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign assistance to the home countries of these children?
- Is the United States using the funds set aside for foreign aid to these countries to cover the costs incurred by their children illegally entering the United States and to send them home? If not, why not?
Impact on Education
- What happens to the tens of thousands poorly educated young people who don't speak English once they arrive at their final destinations in the United States?
- How much will it cost taxpayers to teach these children English and bring them up to grade level so they can eventually graduate from high school?
- How do public schools take thousands of poorly educated teens who don't speak English and prepare them to graduate from high school?
- What percentage of these teens and other unaccompanied minors who illegally enter the United States will drop out of school?
Impact on Criminal and Gang Activities
- How many young men being allowed to enter the United States illegally already have gang ties in their home countries?


















