The Elephant in the Classroom: Mass Immigration's Impact on Public Education Spending More, Getting Less LEP students are more expensive to educate and the cost of these programs is rising. In a 2010 study, FAIR calculated that LEP costs nationwide totaled $51.2 billion (compared with $59.8 billion in 2016). Yet the underlying tragedy behind this mad dash to accommodate illegal aliens, refugees and legal immigrants is that DESPITE ALL THE MONEY SPENT, THERE IS LITTLE TO SHOW FOR IT. https://www.fairus.org/issue/publications-resources/elephant-classroom-mass-immigrations-impact-public-education  This is what democrats are SHOVING down your throats (and you MUST pay for it).