BATON ROUGE, La. – A deluge of illegal immigrant children coming into the United States this year is costing some states millions more than expected, while others are forced to police schools to ensure the unaccompanied minors receive equal treatment.

Officials with Louisiana’s House Legislative Services recently released a report that shows it will cost an estimated $10 million more the state’s current budget to educate at least 1,414 illegal immigrant students who were delivered to Louisiana this year, TheNewsStar.com reports.

“While Louisiana receives federal funds to support Limited English Proficient students, the state is not anticipating any increased federal funds for unaccompanied immigrant children in the 2014-15 school year,” according to the report.

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“The (Louisiana) Department (of Education) is examining if funds not yet allocated by the state are available within the existing federal Title III, English Language Learner program in order to assist these students.”

Most of the illegal immigrants shipped to Louisiana by the federal government reside in a handful of school districts – Lafayette, Jefferson, East Baton Rouge, Orleans and St. Tammany schools. Roughly 289 are elsewhere in the state, according to the news site.

A report by the Federal Department of Health and Human services released estimates on the number of enrolled students, but local school officials contend the numbers are vastly underreported.

In the Lafayette Parish School System, for example, the federal report showed 54 unaccompanied children, while school officials put the number at 107. That district already hired one new English as a Second Language instructor and plans to hire seven more teachers and instructors. Lafayette officials also plan to open a new elementary for ESL students in grades K-5, but did not estimate the cost of the added expenses.

East Baton Rouge officials told the News Star it will cost about $948,137 to hire seven new ESL teachers, one regular teacher and seven assistants, as well as $21,000 for translation services, to educate about 289 illegal immigrants in their district.

In Jefferson Parish it was $4.6 million to hire 27 ESL teachers, 20 ESL para-educators, 19 regular instructors, and three special education teachers to cater to 533 immigrant children.

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“While at school, the students are eligible for the free and reduced lunch program and supplies to help them learn,” according to the News Star.

Those are just the education costs. Louisiana has also spent well over $4.5 million on health care services for illegal immigrants, as well as legal and court expenses for relocation hearings and criminal proceedings, the news site reports.

On New York’s Long Island, enough newly arrived immigrants have complained about complications in enrolling for school that state education officials were forced to issue a letter of legal guidance urging them to comply with federal law – which requires that schools educate all students regardless of residency status.

“The state was spurred by recent reports from an advocacy group, New York Communities for Change, which said that at least 33 students had been excluded from classes in the Hempstead Union Free School District,” the New York Times reports.

NYCC is the former ACORN community agitating group.

“The students, many of whom are newly arrived immigrants, say they successfully enrolled in the summer or early fall, but were warned by Hempstead administrators that there was not enough space or teachers to accommodate them. Instead of attending classes, the students say, they have been told to sign in for attendance at school a few morning each week. They then return home for the rest of the day.”

State education commissioner John B. King Jr. sent a letter last Thursday to the regional education agency Nassau Boces to order an investigation into the students’ claims. The goal is to ensure illegal immigrant students “are being provided instructional services consistent with their needs on the same basis as other students attending schools in the district,” according to the letter cited by the Times.

Even if that means getting a little creative with students’ residency requirements. If students can’t provide documents proving residency, the state recommends that schools classify the students as homeless, “which under federal law allows them to attend school even without proof of residency,” according to the news site.

Meanwhile, students like Diana Hernandez, a 16-year-old fresh from Honduras, are coming to school, signing in, and siting in the library until someone tells them to go home.

“I feel bored and alone,” Hernandez told the Times.

Hernandez and several other immigrant students and their guardians pressed the issue at a recent meeting with school officials. Lamont Johnson, the school board president, would not acknowledge the problem – stating that “I don’t know they’re not in classes” – but said the district is working to finalize an alternative site for immigrants. Some have described the alternative location as a neglected area of a shopping mall, the Times reports.