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    Education Secretary Arne Duncan in 2013: Mexican Women Who Cross Border to Give Birth

    Education Secretary Arne Duncan in 2013: Mexican Women Who Cross Border to Give Birth 'Frankly Inspiring'

    by Dr. Susan Berry 17 Apr 2014, 12:35 PM PDT
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    During a visit to an elementary school in Columbus, New Mexico, last year, U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan said it is “frankly inspiring” that 75 percent of the students there live in Mexico but are being educated in the United States because their mothers crossed the U.S. border for their births, making them U.S. citizens.

    As CNS News reports, Duncan said, “These are our kids, and they’re trying to get a great education – these children and families who are trying to live the American dream of putting everything, everything on the line to get a great education.”

    “And it’s frankly inspiring,” he added.



    A 2013 Washington Post documentary about “blurred” immigration lines highlighted Duncan’s comments and is included on the school’s website.

    According to the documentary, women who live in Palomas, Mexico, frequently cross the U.S. border to give birth in Columbus, New Mexico, because the hospital there is closer than the nearest medical facility in Mexico. In addition, the Palomas clinic often does not have a doctor on staff.

    “So for decades, women in labor have been allowed to cross the border and go to the nearest hospital, which happens to be just 30 miles north of the U.S. border,” says the documentary. “Once they give birth there, the children become citizens.”

    The Washington Post documentary also includes an interview with Columbus Fire Chief Ken Riley who said he has taken “thousands of trips to the border to pick up women in labor.”

    The Columbus, New Mexico, hospital states it loses about $1 million per year providing maternity services to women who can’t pay for them. However, under a 2010 agreement between the United States and Mexico, the Palomas clinic would receive more money and staff, and the U.S. would accept only emergency cases.

    Duncan’s visit to the Columbus, New Mexico, school was part of a bus tour. On the second day of the tour, Duncan watched children leave school to walk across the border into Mexico. As noted on the USDE blog website, Columbus principal Armando Chavez said that every day, the children are sent back across the border into Mexico, hoping that a parent is there to meet them on the other side.

    “Obviously here in Columbus is something I’ve never seen before,” Duncan said. “You have children who are American citizens at the local elementary school – Columbus Elementary – the majority of the kids travel back and forth across the border every single day.”

    Duncan praised the children’s parents for having “the courage to drop their 6- and 7- and 8- year-olds off; to send them here to chase the American dream, to get a better education, to contribute to society.”

    The education secretary also remarked that, when the children cross the border into the United States, school officials are “making sure the children are fed not just during the week but on the weekends.”

    “They make sure the kids’ dental needs are met, their health care needs are met,” he said. “And they are trying to remove every single barrier to children being academically successful.”

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    Duncan on Mexican Women Who Cross U.S. Border to Give Birth: ‘These Are Our Kids’

    April 17, 2014 - 7:53 AM
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    U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan takes a bus ride in Columbus, NM. (Official Department of Education photo by Joshua Hoover.)

    (CNSNews.com) – Education Secretary Arne Duncan visited an elementary school in Columbus, N.M. last year where 75 percent of the students live in Mexico but are being educated in the United States because their mothers crossed the border to seek medical help, and their birth here makes them U.S. citizens.

    “These are our kids and they’re trying to get a great education,” Duncan said during a visit to the school, which was part of his 2013 school bus tour. “These are children and families who are trying to live the American dream of putting everything, everything on the line to get a great education.

    “And it’s frankly inspiring,” Duncan said.

    Duncan’s remarks are included in a 2013 Washington Post documentary about “blurred” immigration lines, which the school has posted on its website.

    The documentary explains that women who live in Palomas, Mexico often cross the border to give birth Columbus, New Mexico because the U.S. hospital is closer than the nearest facility in Mexico and the local Palomas clinic doesn’t always have a doctor on staff.

    "So for decades, women in labor have been allowed to cross the border and go to the nearest hospital, which happens to be just 30 miles north of the U.S. border,” the documentary says. “Once they give birth there, the children become citizens.”

    The film includes an interview with Columbus Fire Chief Ken Riley, who over the years says he has “taken thousands of trips to the border to pick up women in labor.”

    The hospital in Columbus, N.M. estimates it loses $1 million a year providing services to women who can’t pay for them, according to the Post.

    But the documentary also notes that under a 2010 agreement between U.S. and Mexico, the Palomas clinic would get more money and staff, and the U.S. would accept only emergency cases. Today, “runs to the border by the Columbus EMTs have been cut in half,” the documentary notes.

    The Department of Education recently posted a video of Duncan’s trip to Columbus Elementary School, where he was greeted by a mariachi band.

    “Obviously here in Columbus is something I’ve never seen before,” Duncan says in the video. “You have children who are American citizens at the local elementary school – Columbus Elementary – the majority of the kids travel back and forth across the border every single day.”

    Duncan also hailed the children’s parents for having “the courage to drop their 6- and 7- and 8-year-olds off; to send them here to chase the American dream, to get a better education, to contribute to society,” Duncan said.

    Harvilee Moore, superintendent of Deming Public Schools, says in the Post documentary that the practice of allowing children who live in Mexico to attend Columbus schools dates back to a decision in the 1950s by a former school principal, and that decision has always been supported by the state of New Mexico.

    “We are educators,” Moore said. “We consider that we are putting children first. We are doing our job.”

    Duncan says children are getting more than an education when they cross the border into the United States, as school officials are “making sure the children are fed not just during the week put on the weekends.

    “They make sure the kids dental needs are met, their health care needs are met,” Duncan said.

    “And they are trying to remove every single barrier to children being academically successful.”

    Under the 14th Amendment, automatic citizenship is conferred on anyone born in the United States, even if the parents are here illegally.

    Earlier this year, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) re-introduced legislation that would "fix the flawed interpretation of the Constitution's citizenship clause."

    King's "Birthright Citizenship Act of 2013" would end the current practice of extending U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of "anchor babies," which he called a magnet for illegal immigration.

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    Here is the E I sent him..............Feel free to copy and paste and send it to him
    arne.duncan@ed.gov

    Dear Secretary Duncan......
    Saw your comments about Illegals coming here to have us pay for not only their deliveries but also their educations.
    I am glad to see you prioritize Americans over illegals. Sarc.
    This administration - and many on the other side of the aisle - is why this country is in so much trouble.
    While the (liberal) media tells us one in six in America goes hungry,
    that millions of Americans don't have jobs and/or can't make a living,
    and Jobless Barack continues to push regulation and immigration ahead of
    compassion for Americans (never lacking in compassion for
    non-Americans, it seems),
    you guys continue to bring in more mouths to feed, more minds to poison, more competition for those jobs out there.
    It's always refreshing to see Americans putting Americans first. Please.......I mean US Americans, no semantic tricks.
    Hope YOU find a job OK come late 2016.
    With all due disrespect,
    Illegal, or unlawful, is used to describe something that is prohibited or not authorized by law

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    They all qualify for the same goodies that anchor baby mama's get here in the US. Food stamps et al sent to them in Mexico.
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