OAKLAND, Calif. – The Oakland Unified School District’s immigrant student population is swelling to the point that school officials are looking for a support services consultant to help them find legal, counseling, health and other services.

The district posted the job opening this month to cater specifically to the 150 unaccompanied immigrants who have enrolled in the school system since June 2013, and other districts, like San Francisco, are considering doing the same, USAToday reports.

“These students need extra assistance finding services because they don’t have refugee status that would give them access to a social worker, food stamps or Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, said Carmelita Reyes, principal at Oakland International High School,” according to the news site.

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“In the same way there are school specialists who deal with foster youth or refugees, we need a specialist who tracks these kids,” Reyes said.

The top priority for whoever fills the position won’t be to help the students navigate their educational career, but rather to lead the unaccompanied minors to legal services provided by Bay Area organizations.

About 50 unaccompanied minors attend Oakland’s International High School, one of 17 in California, New York and Virginia designed to accommodate immigrants.  The Oakland district already employs staffers to run its Refugee and Asylum Program, but the new position will focus exclusively on illegal immigrants.

As many as 50,000 illegal immigrant children have flooded across the U.S.-Mexico border from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras over the last year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures cited by USAToday.

The new immigrant support consultant position in Oakland is funded by foundation grants for one year, with no plan mentioned for how the district will pay for the work afterwards. Presumably, the expense would be added to the district’s ever-growing school budget with the tab picked up by taxpayers.

“It’s hard to imagine, with the number of kids arriving now, that the need (for this position) will go away within one year,” Nate Dunstan, specialist with Oakland’s Refugee and Asylum Program told USAtoday.

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According to the news site, “Oakland’s school district aims to hire someone by mid-September. The consultant will have to first prioritize the students who will age out of the school system or face upcoming court dates.”

For now, school administrators are helping their illegal immigrant students find their place, but as Reyes notes, “We are trying to help, but honestly, that’s not our job.”