“Children Immigrants” An Impending Issue For Miami-Dade Schools « CBS Miami

Miami-Dade schools prepare for the latest wave of immigrants. This time it is what they are terming "unaccompanied children." These are children that are from Central America, fleeing conditions in their own country and being allowed to cross into the U.S. Click title for the Channel 4 Miami story with video.

“We have received about 300 students from Honduras over the past few months so recognizing the challenge, that crisis, we’re asking federal got to intervene,” said Miami-Dade Superintendent Alberto Carvalho.
Carvalho asked the board for support to request funds from the federal government for those children, known as unaccompanied children immigrants, primarily from Central America to cover their costs in school.
The board will request $1,950 per year per child in addition to what the state already puts in.
Local representatives are in full support of the move.
“I think we’ve seen this before .. with the rafter crisis and Haitian community.. another wave where we having a wave of immigrants and the super is doing the right thing,” said State Representative Manny Diaz.