U.S. teachers face language barriers, student trauma as record migration reaches classrooms

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : "Washington County, where Charleroi is located, backed Trump over Biden in 2020 by 23 percentage points, symbolizing a part of the rural vote that could help Trump win Pennsylvania, the most important of the election battleground states that could decide control of the White House.
59% : "It takes centuries to build the unique character of each state," Trump said at the time.
54% : "Charleroi, what a beautiful name, but it's not so beautiful now," Trump told supporters.
51% : To gauge the impact of immigration on public schools across the U.S., Reuters sent a survey to more than 10,000 school districts.
50% : Beth Pellegrini, who attended Charleroi public schools herself as a child and served on the Parent Teacher Association, said she decided this year to send her three children to the charter school in part because teachers were too busy trying to communicate with non-English speaking students to give them enough attention.
23% : While Trump has derided a wide range of immigrant groups throughout his political career, he has taken particular aim at Haitians, questioning while president in 2018 why the U.S. would accept Haitians and immigrants from 'shithole countries' in Africa.
22% : At a rally in Arizona last month, Trump used Charleroi, a town an hour south of Pittsburgh, as an example of the negative impacts of immigration.
5% : Trump also faults Harris for a Biden program launched in late 2022 that allowed legal entry to 530,000 Haitians and others with U.S. sponsors.

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