Public schools throughout the United States have some of the most significant decreases in state education funding that they have seen in decades as a result of illegal immigrants. In some states this means larger class sizes, fewer textbooks, eliminating sports, language programs, teacher lay-offs and after-school activities. Almost two-thirds of  U.S. states have cut back or have planned reductions in support for childcare and early childhood programs.  The school week, in some cases, has been reduced from five to four days.

These massive budget deficits cannot be pinned on any single source, but there has been enormous impact from the influx of children from large-scale illegal immigration and it cannot be ignored. The total U.S. K-12 education costs for illegal immigrants is nearly $12 billion dollars annually and when the children born to these illegal immigrants are added it balloons to more than double to $28.6 billion.