In Logansport, Indiana, Kids Are Being Pushed Out Of Schools After Migrants Swelled County’s Population by 30%: ‘Everybody else is falling behind’
LOGANSPORT, Indiana — Thousands of
migrants from Haiti and dozens of other countries have arrived in this isolated Indiana city of 18,000 in just a few years.
Furious residents say they no longer feel safe in the once-sleepy downtown, and their kids are being muscled out of the schools by new students who don’t know English and need a lot of help.
They blame Vice President Kamala Harris and President Biden.
“Do something. Our community cannot withstand this many people being here,” Candice Espinoza, 32, a local photographer, told The Post when asked what her message would be to the Democratic presidential candidate.
Nancy Baker, 44, a mother of two, was more blunt about what she would tell Harris: “Get off my property.”
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Cheyanne, a 16-year-old honors student from Logansport, dropped out of her public high school and enrolled in an online school after teachers’ attention became disproportionately focused on newly arrived migrants.
Baker said her 16-year-old daughter, Cheyanne, dropped out of the local high school because teachers seemingly had no time for the English-speaking pupils anymore.
“There were way too many kids and it seemed to her that since they didn’t speak the language, or didn’t understand what was going on, they were getting more attention,” Baker said.
Residents blame Vice President Kamala Harris and President Biden. “Do something. Our community cannot withstand this many people being here,” Candice Espinoza, 32, a local photographer,…
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