LYNN, Mass. – A flood of illegal immigrants into Lynn, Massachusetts is causing a rift in the community over how to deal with the unaccompanied minors.

Today, local community support groups and some public officials will hold a rally at City Hall to bark back against claims by school district and city officials that the recent wave of immigrants will further strain the school system’s finances, the Daily Item reports.

The rally call, coincidentally, melds well with the illogical union mentality that increasing funding increases academic achievement, and is providing yet another opportunity for city’s liberals to demand more cash for public schools.

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“Our schools have been underfunded for years,” Jose Palma, spokesman for the group Neighbor to Neighbor, told the Daily Item.

“We need to look for solutions and not blame the immigrants,” school committee member Maria Carrasco said. Mayor Judith Flanagan Kelly “talks about us like we’re not human beings. Like we’re nobody.”

Kennedy and district superintendent Catherine Latham have raised concerns about an overwhelming number of immigrant minors that have flooded the district in recent years, and the impact the unaccompanied minors have on school and city resources.

“More than 600 new students entered the Lynn School district during the 2013-14 school year, and 248 were Guatemalan youths relocated from border crossings in the Southwest, 108 came from the Dominican Republic and the rest from Congo, Iraq, Bhutan, Nigeria and more than a dozen other countries,” the Daily Item reports.

“Lynn is a microcosm of what the U.S. will look like – filled to capacity, and we can’t take anymore refugees or unaccompanied minors without the rest of the people here suffering,” Kennedy said last week, according to the news site.

Aside from the added expense of educating the immigrant children, the problem is also overwhelming the local health department, which administers state-supplied vaccines as a free service.

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“Health Department Director MaryAnn O’Connor sat in Kennedy’s office Monday with four manila folders. Two dated March 2013 and April 2013 were each about a half-inch thick and two dated March 2014 and April 2014 were each nearly five inches thick,” the Daily Item reported last week.

“O’Connor said every page represents a new child coming into the district in need of immunization, and the growing thickness of the files pretty much tells the story.”

Carrasco and Palma said today’s rally will constitute a call on Kennedy and Latham to “stop blaming the children” and to “fully fund the schools, which they insist is not currently being done,” according to the news site.

What’s not being discussed, however, is the impact collective bargaining and unnecessary labor expenses have on the district’s finances. While the reality is it likely costs a great deal more to educate more students, particularly students who don’t speak English as their native language, much of the added expense could be derived from savings from unnecessary union contract provisions, such as payments for unused sick days, generous teacher leave policies, automatic annual salary increases and other expensive union perks common in teachers contracts.

While Kennedy and Latham’s critics want the public to believe that local schools are already “underfunded,” the fact is the district’s budget is bloated with many labor expenses that the district could do without.

Freeing up extra cash to educate the city’s growing population of illegal aliens, however, would require a small sacrifice from the local teachers union, which provides political and monetary support for liberal politicians.

And it seems quite clear that Lynn’s leftists would rather require taxpayers to pony up additional funds than to put the immigrant children they care so deeply about ahead of their own interests.