With just days left in the Biden Administration, Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced a lawsuit against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Deputy Director Peter Flores.
According to a release from the Oklahoma State Department of Education, the lawsuit seeks compensation for the “severe financial and operational strain that their failed border policies have placed on Oklahoma’s public schools.”
“Biden Administration leaders utterly abandoned their constitutional duty to secure our nation’s borders, leaving states like Oklahoma to pick up the pieces. Their negligence has been a sad and harmful trademark of the Biden administration and has sent shockwaves across our communities, overburdening schools with unfunded mandates and diverting resources from Oklahoma children.” Supt. Walters said.
The release from Walters’ office points to what it called a connection between the “federal government’s border mismanagement and the skyrocketing costs Oklahoma schools face to accommodate an influx of non-citizen students.”
OSDE highlighted three allegations made in the lawsuit: The alleged cost to Oklahoma taxpayers, the alleged diversion of resources and the alleged neglect of constitutional duty.
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