Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is right about a spike in the number of new immigrant students enrolled in Miami-Dade Public Schools. The number of new students from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela this school year has nearly doubled.
If Your Time is shortThe number of newly enrolled students from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela for the 2022-23 school year is close to 14,000, nearly double last school year’s number.
In total, about 20,000 new immigrant students have enrolled in Miami-Dade this school year — accounting for close to 70% of all of the county’s new enrollees.Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is eyeing a 2024 presidential run. In an interview on CBS’"Face the Nation," the Republican talked at length about Florida’s newest immigration policies and how immigration is affecting his city.
Suarez cast doubt on the effect Gov. Ron DeSantis’ new policies will have in places like Miami. But the uptick in immigration across the country is directly affecting Miami-Dade County Public Schools,"Just last year in our public school system, we had over 14,000 new children, 10,000 of which came from four countries of Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti," Suarez said May 21.
Suarez didn’t clarify what he meant by"last year," or whether he was referring to the total number of new students in the county, or only the number of new foreign students. However, PolitiFact took a look at Miami-Dade County Public Schools data and found Suarez is right that there has been an increase in the number of new students from those four countries who have enrolled in the school district.The number of new students from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela in Miami-Dade Public Schools who have enrolled in the 2022-23 school year is nearly double that of 2021-22, according to data the school district sent to PolitiFact.
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