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I'm Elizabeth Mitchell and I'm here with Ryan Walters, the state superintendent of education in Oklahoma.

This election cycle, the border crisis is a top issue for a lot of Americans.

How is illegal immigration affecting Oklahoma schools?

School districts are going to actually account for how many illegal immigrants are in their schools.

Turn those over to us at the State Department.

So we can see how big the problem is, because we've got to understand the numbers, we've got to

understand the fiscal impact so we can understand how to deal with it. So we're

the first day in the country to say school is you're going to tell us you're

going to keep account of it and we're going to know how many illegal immigrants are attending our schools.

You've also seen a radical left teachers union who have pushed indoctrination in a way that

like we've never seen before. Pushing transgender ideology, pushing pornography

like gender queer enflamer into our schools

under the guise of inclusivity, fighting accountability.

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