OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — State Superintendent Ryan Walters is suing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security for $474 million, according to a press release from the Oklahoma State Department of Education Walters filed the lawsuit in the U.S. Western District Court of Oklahoma on Tuesday, alleging that the Biden-Harris Administration failed to secure the border which resulted in the use of taxpayer dollars to fund education for undocumented immigrant children. In the suit, Walters says Oklahoma spends over $13,736 per student enrolled in local school district based on a report from the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs. He goes on to say the approximate 3,000 undocumented unaccompanied minors residing in Oklahoma have cost taxpayers roughly $41.2 million since the start of the Biden-Harris Administration. Walters brings $3 million bible-in-the-classroom ask to Senate hearing Walters is requesting reimbursement for costs including: recruiting and retaining additional and bilingual teachers, tutors, and other school personnel, recruiting and retaining additional school counselors to address academic concerns among the immigrant children due to insufficient prior education, and cultural differences and integration into the Oklahoma public school system, increased costs in determining the actual number of undocumented immigrant children that must be educated, increased costs due to academic and language assessments necessary to develop a plan for educating undocumented immigrants, increased costs incurred to transport a greater number of children statewide via public school transport systems, increased costs to determine whether the additional children need nutritional assistance via the public school system, increased costs to assess the need for Individualized Education Plans (“IEP”) when presented with language and cultural barriers that may result in incorrect, initial assessments. The $474 million figure mentioned in the press release is not included in the copy of the lawsuit obtained by News 4. The full lawsuit can be read below. Walters-lawsuit-against-ICE-DHSDownload