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Again it is customary in the SW to short education. CA, AZ, NM, UT, NV. Quite consistent. Only UT with it relatively homogeneous population does well. Of course Cost of Living is a variable but that generally indicates the problem is worse than the raw numbers suggest.
And yet again Beatty has a relatively homogeneous population. So it is just a quirk in the manning system...not driven by diversity.
Is diversity the new code word for illegals? I mean to clean it up and make it sound, you know, less illegal?
Is diversity the new code word for illegals? I mean to clean it up and make it sound, you know, less illegal?
In this case diversity was used to note that Beatty has a relatively small Hispanic population whether legal or illegal.. So neither illegal nor legal Hispanics are creating the problem.
Determining the illegal population in a small NV town would be difficult. But Hispanic is readily available.
I can remember Hillary Clinton in Las Vegas earlier this year and her commercial saying she was going to do all she can for the parents of illegal immigrants.
Luckily, it seems like chickens are coming to roost and that the high birth rate amongst illegal immigrants is causing class sizes to swell as high as 43 in some Las Vegas classrooms.
Predictions are that classrooms could become larger before the Christmas cold and flu season.
North Dakota by contrast with one of the lowest percentages of illegal immigrants average 11 students per teacher.
Vermont with a very low percentage of illegal imigrants has 10 students per teacher
Arizona is by far the biggest illegal immigrant city in the nation. California used to be but the cost of living has gotten so high there unless they live far away from city's with fuel cost driving those distances is a lot. Everyday they come up into my neighborhood looking for landscape work. I don't think I go 1 day without seeing an illegal immigrant.
Arizona is by far the biggest illegal immigrant city in the nation. California used to be but the cost of living has gotten so high there unless they live far away from city's with fuel cost driving those distances is a lot. Everyday they come up into my neighborhood looking for landscape work. I don't think I go 1 day without seeing an illegal immigrant.
Sorry but on a per capita basis Las Vegas has more illegals than Phoenix. On an absolute basis CA of course is the winner. I would also note that illegals are not a big problem in Las Vegas. Interesting that we have more but less of a problem.
Nevada doesn't have "more" just a higher percent per capita. Considering the state is among the least populated that equates to not all that many illegals in comparison to more populated states with lower percentages.
I do agree that they aren't generally a major cause of crime/social disorder here. I do think Vegas sees a higher percentage of illegals from Central America than say TX tho so that may be part of the difference.
Nevada doesn't have "more" just a higher percent per capita. Considering the state is among the least populated that equates to not all that many illegals in comparison to more populated states with lower percentages.
I do agree that they aren't generally a major cause of crime/social disorder here. I do think Vegas sees a higher percentage of illegals from Central America than say TX tho so that may be part of the difference.
Texas predictably had Texas sized problems.
That is kind of silly. Las Vegas is a big city. Illegal Population in the rural counties is small. Yet it has a lesser problem than Phoenix with a higher relative illegal population.
Virtually all are from Mexico. I know a few dozen many of whom once were illegal though not now. All from Mexico. The other large Spanish speaking group here is Filipino.
The children involved mostly have one. A recent issue in TX when TX got tough about issuing them but has since backed off.
Children here illegally are still eligible. Well established Constitutional right.
I wonder how they get around things like immunization records. Those are usually required before a child can attend school.
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