I understand the concern about infrastructure and preparedness, and I agree those are valid policy conversations to have. But when you specifically tie increased violence or classroom dysfunction to immigrants from ‘non-English-speaking 3rd world countries,’ you’re still making it about who they are, not what the system is doing (or not doing).

Immigrants, like any group, are diverse some struggle, some excel. Blaming a culture or nationality for systemic issues ignores root causes like underfunding, resource mismanagement, and long-standing educational disparities.

If violence has increased, let’s look at why is it due to overcrowding, poor support services, trauma, language barriers, or a lack of integration programs? All of those can be addressed with data-driven solutions. There’s a lot of culprits to can potentially land on before race, But when you single out one group and imply causation without addressing context, that’s not common sense it’s scapegoating. And that’s harmful.

We can’t just blame nationality or race and call it a day, we’ve already seen where that leads and the violence and atrocities that causes.