Article snippet: Federal funding for Baltimore’s John Ruhrah Elementary/Middle School has declined because many adults migrants are refusing to enroll in federal anti-poverty welfare programs, the New York Times reported June 16. The migrants are avoiding the welfare programs because of fear they will get deportation notices instead of green cards: The concern is driven by President Donald Trump’s various regulatory efforts to deter migration by keeping migrants from enrolling in welfare and aid programs, including Medicaid and food stamps. Those aid programs allow employers to hire migrants and Americans at wages far below what is needed to prosper in the United States. One of the biggest aid programs is Title 1, which distributes $16 billion each year to schools that teach many poor students, including the growing number of migrant children who are being brought into the United States via the catch and release loopholes. In effect, the federal government — especially since 2011 — is using Title 1 to pay state schools to welcome and teach the children of illegal immigrants, regardless of the impact on Americans’ children. This year, up to one million migrants will use Congress’s catch and release rules, including hundreds of thousands of children who will be placed into American children’s classrooms. For example, 60,000 migrant children were brought across the border from May 1 to June 10, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan told a Senat... Link to the full article to read more