The "Massive immigration wave" on President Joe Biden's watch is straining public schools across the United States, the Wall Street Journal details.
As a result, public schools where migrant children are resettling have been hit with financial and staffing burdens they have not experienced before.
Researchers with the Center for Immigration Studies analyzed the impact of mass immigration under the Biden administration, finding that in 2021, 1 in 4 public school students in the United States were from immigrant households - more than double the share in 1990 and over triple from 1980.
With more immigration, the researchers found, comes more poverty in the nation's public schools.
"Immigration has added disproportionately to the number of low-income students in public schools," the researchers wrote.
"In 2021, 21 percent of public school students from immigrant households lived in poverty and they accounted for 29 percent of all students living below the poverty line."
States where public school students from immigrant households have increased in share the most include Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington, Massachusetts, New York, Georgia, Virginia, Texas, Florida, and Minnesota.
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