Mass. Town Mayor: Adult Illegal Aliens Being Enrolled in Public Schools

[AuH20]

Strange.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/mayor-adult-illegal-aliens-graying-hair-enrolled-public-schools


Kennedy said that the majority of those from Guatemala who are enrolling in the Lynn Public Schools claim to be between 14 and 17 years of age.

“But there were people with graying temples, hair around the temples,” said Kennedy, adding that although she did not see these individuals in person, she saw photographs of them in registration paperwork. “There were people with more wrinkles than I have around their eyes.”

However, the school district was directed by the federal government not to verify the age of the foreign enrollees, Kennedy said.

“We were told through a directive from the Department of Justice (DOJ) that we were not to question or verify – attempt to verify these ages,” Kennedy stated at the press conference, hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).

Kennedy said that she and the school superintendent in Lynn wanted to know why the number of students from Guatemala “almost doubled” from 56 who enrolled during the 2012-13 school year to 101 during the 2013-14 school year.

[Zippyjuan]

Stranger still. Mayor admits not having actually seen any of these "grey haired" students.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbankan-anti-immigration-groups-imaginary-scapegoats/2014/08/27/9187234e-2e2f-11e4-9b98-848790384093_story.html


But upon closer inspection, Kennedy’s tale of woe doesn’t quite add up. Those kids with wrinkles and gray hair? She admitted she hadn’t seen them herself. And the “surge” of unaccompanied minors Kennedy has felt? It predates the actual surge at the border, which has been building for a couple of years but exploded only in 2014.


Of those Guatemalan children who have come to Lynn, the mayor acknowledged, she doesn’t know “how many are refugees, how many are illegal immigrants including unaccompanied minors, and how many arrived legally.” That’s an important distinction, because what’s going on in the city appears to have less to do with illegal immigration and the current border crisis than with long-term patterns of legal migration, which are economically beneficial.

Kennedy admitted that Lynn was struggling to begin with (81 percent of the children in its schools receive subsidized lunches) and she noted that the influx of immigrants has had “a positive impact on the prices of our rental units and the availability of our rental units. Especially the ones in the desirable section of town, the prices have gone to the point where there are bidding wars. . . . So I guess in that way there’s a perverse positive effect on economic development.”


Some of Lynn’s immigrants are minors who came illegally, and others are refugees from countries outside Central America. Many more — the ones who bid up rents — probably have come legally to join the city’s already thriving Guatemalan community.

[Anti Federalist]

Lynn, Lynn,

The city of sin,

You won't come out,

The way you went in.

[Anti Federalist]

Unchecked immigration?

What could go wrong?

http://cdn.breitbart.com/mediaserver/Breitbart/Big-Government/2012/05/08/Screen%20Shot%2020120508%20at%20122423%20PM.png

[RandallFan]

Extremist Scott Brown and Rich Tisei MA-6 (openly gay) voters refuse to accept common sense amnesty.

[satchelmcqueen]

the rest of the world laughs at us. what a shame, for real.

[alucard13mm]

Must be nice having adult men attending school with your daughters. Or having adults and kids with TB and other infectious diseases.

[Zippyjuan]

Must be nice having adult men attending school with your daughters. Or having adults and kids with TB and other infectious diseases.

None of which has been proven true in this case.

[alucard13mm]

But there is no way to prove their age. Not like they carry any legal, official document stating their age or probably any ID for that matter.

[TheTexan]

Unchecked immigration?

What could go wrong?

http://cdn.breitbart.com/mediaserver/Breitbart/Big-Government/2012/05/08/Screen%20Shot%2020120508%20at%20122423%20PM.png

Absolutely agree. America, is for Americans.

[puppetmaster]

None of which has been proven true in this case.

Can you prove otherwise? Nope, so your opinion matters not at all.

[AuH20]

None of which has been proven true in this case.

But she did say that the student registration photos are very misleading. Unless we're dealing with several individuals who are afflicted with progeria.

[Zippyjuan]

Can you prove otherwise? Nope, so your opinion matters not at all.

The Mayor was also just expressing an opinion and admitted to not having actual facts to back it up. Perhaps you have some facts you can share with us?