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It Was an Invasion - Huge Swaths of Students
Missing From Classrooms as ICE Begins
Enforcing Law in Charlotte, NC

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Posted By: ConservativeYankee, 11/21/2025 8:49:22 AM

When can you not call an invasion an invasion? When it’s politically incorrect, of course. But numbers are numbers. And the numbers are in after Immigration and Customs Enforcement began conducting operations in Charlotte, North Carolina: Tens of thousands of students were missing from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools on Monday, the first day of Border Patrol’s deployment there. This amounted to over half of students in several schools, especially where the majority of students were Hispanic. According to WFAE-FM, the city’s school authorities issued a final number of 30,399, 10,000 absences more than it had initially calculated. The data variances, school officials said, were common and a result of either including Pre-K students or

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Reply 1 - Posted by: red1066 11/21/2025 8:58:42 AM (No. 2032463)
The teachers should be happy. Smaller class sizes and less work for them. Plus, the remaining students know how to speak English, so less time spent working with the interpreter explaining lessons and less time spent calling the homes of these kids only to get someone on the other end who can't speak English as well. I can't tell you the number of times my wife had to call the school system to get an interpreter when she needed to talk to a student's parent or guardian during the Covid shutdown.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DiegoDude 11/21/2025 9:34:58 AM (No. 2032489)
Ouch. School districts are sucking up the loss of those federal dollars, per day, for students attending school each day. Good!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: felixcat 11/21/2025 9:49:47 AM (No. 2032502)
In what other country is the country required to educate illegal alien minors? (rhetorical question)
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Reply 4 - Posted by: volksford 11/21/2025 10:21:09 AM (No. 2032522)
Ice budget is money well spent..hire a couple hundred thousand more
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Reply 5 - Posted by: J. Arthur Brown 11/21/2025 10:49:43 AM (No. 2032542)
To know how much effect immigration enforcement actually had on student absenteeism need to know what the chronic absenteeism rate is for the Charlotte Mecklenburg School System. The article states that absenteeism on Monday of the previous week was about 10% but we don't know how "normal" that one-day figure is. According to Brave's AI assistant the most recent chronic absenteeism data available for a school year is for 2022-2023 . During that year chronic absenteeism for students was 22%. If the chronic absenteeism rate is still that high the 30,399 absentee figure (20%) is, unfortunately for the school children, about average for the District.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: former cat lady 11/21/2025 11:05:15 AM (No. 2032554)
Dealing with language barriers in public schools on a grand scale due to illegal aliens. You better believe this slows the learning pace to a crawl for English speaking American students. But potential govt. dependent democrat voters is the end that justifies the means. Or collapsing the system. Take your pick.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 11/21/2025 11:36:40 AM (No. 2032574)
Their families took a road trip.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: crashnburn 11/21/2025 11:44:00 AM (No. 2032577)
#6. I choose all of the above. Charlotte's construction companies also went dark. I'm hoping all their missing employees headed south to find construction jobs in Latin America.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: JackBurton 11/21/2025 1:02:21 PM (No. 2032610)
While I believe that the bulk of the absentees are illegals who are justified in staying home... and admission of their guilt... I know enough liberals to believe that some of the citizens are staying home because of the irrational fear of repressive action on the part of ICE. It's projection. Liberals would violate laws and logic to put conservatives in jail. They feel the right would do the same thing.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: DVC 11/21/2025 1:07:22 PM (No. 2032615)
Imagine the money that will be saved not having to educate the entire third world at our expense.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Foghorn 11/21/2025 3:34:39 PM (No. 2032665)
More proof of what is being taught in schools today. These kids were thoroughly indoctrinated. They should have been told 'leave school and you will be expelled'. School authorities may have put them up to demonstrating because the school authorities are far left. The union in New York City get two thirds of the Cities budget and the students are graduating that cannot read or write. How you gonna fix that Mamdani?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: skacmar 11/21/2025 3:49:41 PM (No. 2032666)
What is wrong with this picture? 30,399 missing and assumed illegal students being paid for by Charlotte tax payers. What programs and services did the schools have to give up to provide those services to illegals at the expense of citizens? How much did property taxes increase to provide an education for the people here illegally? Don' forget the additional costs of the free breaasts and lunches also provided to these students and the additional staff needed to accomodate them. These were all services that were provided at the expense of poor Black students who were tossed aside for illegals. Just think where those students could be education wise if the money spent educating 30,399 students who do not belong here were available for actual citizens children.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Strike3 11/21/2025 6:25:37 PM (No. 2032699)
"...especially where the majority of students were Hispanic." Another "Duh" moment by our ever-vigilent media. When you look at how high the cost per student is in many of our schools and how little they learn, it makes perfect sense. American parents pay school taxes for their own children and almost an equal number of "guests."
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Reply 14 - Posted by: mifla 11/22/2025 5:47:43 AM (No. 2032791)
These public schools are nothing more than glorified baby sitters for the parents. The kids can barely read or write when they graduate.
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