Chelsea is a city of 37,000 located across the river from Boston. It is now 62 percent Hispanic , having begun to diversify in the 1970s.

Chelsea appears to have gotten a head start on the alien kiddie deluge, with the first wave arriving over the last school year. The fall enrollment started at 5500, but ended up with 6200, 285 of whom arrived from abroad and 25 direct from the border zone. And they are needy newbies, requiring Spanish-speaking teachers, tutors and counselors. These new hires come at the cost of existing programs.

But no dollar amount is given for the taxpayer cost for the education and treatment of the foreign children. Now resources are being shunted from American kids to the foreigners until the time when taxes are raised to pay for the increased diversity.

Furthermore, it’s hard to imagine that the citizen kids are getting an adequate education in the midst of the general turmoil and distraction for teachers and administrators.