More than 500 foreign students, including illegals, have entered the high school since 2011.
“Some of them have had gray hair and they’re telling you that they’re 17 years old and they have no documentation,” Jamie Cerulli, the Lynn mayor’s chief of staff, tells NRO. “If my children went to the public schools, I’d be very uncomfortable with all of these unaccompanied minors [that] are placed in the ninth grade.”
Admission of all foreign students – illegal immigrants, refugees, and foreign nationals – has increased by more than 500 students since the 2010—2011 school year, Catherine Latham, the city’s superintendent of schools, tells NRO. Last school year, nearly 250 students arrived from Guatemala, including 126 enrolled in the ninth grade.
I have no idea what illegals stand to gain by posing as high school students, but whatever the motivation is, it can’t be good.