The Department of Justice sent out a memo to local schools in the U.S. a few weeks back. That memo ordered schools to take in illegal aliens without verifying anything about them — not their legal status, not their residential addresses, anything.

U.S. citizens cannot get away with that. When citizens move into a new school district and enroll their kids at school, they usually have to provide some form of proof of address, to ensure that their children are in the right school in the correct district. Much school money depends on enrollment and attendance.

But with illegal aliens, it’s a different story.

CNS reports that that different story is having a bizarre outcome.

The mayor of Lynn, Mass. says that some of the illegal aliens from Guatemala who are enrolled in her city’s public schools are adults with graying hair and “more wrinkles than I have.” “They are not all children,” Judith Flanagan Kennedy told reporters at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. “One of the things that we did notice when we were processing some of these students coming in was that they were adults,” she said.

One of these “kids” turned out to be 35 years old.

Kennedy said that the majority of those from Guatemala who are enrolling in the Lynn Public Schools claim to be between 14 and 17 years of age. “But there were people with graying temples, hair around the temples,” said Kennedy, adding that although she did not see these individuals in person, she saw photographs of them in registration paperwork. “There were people with more wrinkles than I have around their eyes.” However, the school district was directed by the federal government not to verify the age of the foreign enrollees, Kennedy said.

Enrolling adults as “kids” in public schools full of actual kids. No, surely, nothing can go wrong from this.