The fact that the United States has been admitting millions of poor unskilled foreigners as immigrants for decades makes it no surprise that the amount of child poverty is highly elevated. There’s a lot of adult poverty too, but the fact of kids growing up with insufficient resources is supposedly more shameful in our wealthy country.

As it happens, Washington’s obstinate auto-pilot immigration has imported millions of poor people who will never live without taxpayer-funded assistance for food, housing and education. The policy leaves our own poor people with the short end of the stick as schools in low-income areas are ever more crowded and dysfunctional, and American workers must compete with foreigners for jobs.

Below, a group of Obama’s border surge kids line up to get some free-to-them stuff supported by American taxes.

As economist George Borjas remarked the other day, mass immigration is the world’s “largest anti-poverty program” — although the influx is not kind to America’s poor and working class. “The largest loss is probably the wage drop suffered by the workers who now face more competition in the labor market,” Borjas said.