That’s the cost of turning Tennessee public schools into ICE agents:
The advocates cited a new report from the Immigration Research Initiative (IRI) that shows:
- Verifying the status of all students in the state would entail hiring, training and equipping an estimated 934 school personnel. For context, that is roughly half the number of school nurses in Tennessee public schools.
- The cost of hiring these 934 employees would total roughly $55 million statewide.
- These are not one-time costs. The expense for each district would be highest in the first year of implementation but would continue to recur every school year.
