by Victoria Manning

School districts across the Commonwealth are sanctuaries for illegal aliens. They openly defy Virginia law that requires schools to notify law enforcement when any person enrolling a pupil fails “to present a certified copy of the pupil’s birth record.” The number of English language learners has skyrocketed in Virginia schools—including nearly half of the student population in two school districts.

Every student in Virginia must provide proof of age by presenting a certified birth certificate upon enrollment in school. Otherwise, they must provide an affidavit explaining the inability to produce the birth record. Those affidavits must be promptly turned over to law enforcement, but it appears districts around the state have chosen not to follow that law.

The number in Virginia have exploded.

The number of English language learners in each school district is astounding—a statewide increase of more than 25,000 from 2021 to 2024. Even though nearly half of Harrisonburg’s students are English language learners, they have provided no reports to law enforcement regarding students not having certified birth certificates. The Migration Policy Institute estimates that 41 percent of babies born in developing countries go unregistered and therefore cannot get a birth certificate.

2023, the Office of Refugee Resettlement lost track of over 85,000 unaccompanied minors. Out of that group, 70 percent were males ages 15 or older. Many of the so-called minors crossing the border are considered adults in their own nations, and some are hardened criminals. In El Salvador, the term adult is defined as someone who has reached puberty. In Honduras, the age of criminal responsibility is 12.

In June 2024, the Biden administration admitted they do not seek criminal history information on minors under 18.

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