Thread: Students warned to prove Texas residence or leave

Well then the kids who live in the poor ghettos of LA have every right to go to school in Beverly Hills, right? After all, they all want a better school too. These morons have no leg to stand on.

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Calif. school targets Mexican students

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/200 ... 0786_x.htm

These kids have all the rights to an American school," said Casillas, a 49-year-old who grew up in Del Rio.

Why?! What makes people think that America should pay for Mexican children to attend our schools? More of Mexico's culture of entitlement. They are always looking for anything they can get for free and get angry if the are caught trying to pass themselves off as citizens.

The following link is to a "Immigration Blog" on the Houston Chronical discussing the so called Texas crackdown on ILLEGALS, it may be worth reading some of the comments both Pro- United States Citizens and Pro-ILLEGAL.

Many of tne comment seem to have a need to make the ILLEGALS a partisan issue between the two "major" Political Parties!

The invasion by the ILLEGALS is not a partisan issue! The problem for at least the last 20 years is too many Elitist Politicians from both major Political Parties, have been willing to turn the United States into a welfare state to insure most of our citizens obtain Third World status by importing ILLEGALS for cheap labor to take United States Citizen’s jobs for their Political Contributors and Special Interest Groups or outsourcing United States Citizen’s jobs to Third World Countries. Too many U.S. Citizens are wrapped up into winning one for their political party and our nation's survival becomes secondary to PARTY Loyalty!

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September 21, 2009
Students walk in from Mexico to attend Texas schools
There are plenty of chidren in the U.S. who have long bus rides to school. But there are probably not that many whose treks to school involve crossing international borders. From an AP story today:

DEL RIO, Texas -- Students living in northern Mexico have skirted residency requirements to attend U.S. public schools for generations, but when the superintendent in one Texas border town got word that about 400 school-age children were crossing the international bridge each day with backpacks but no student visas, he figured he had to do something.

The community is connected by a bridge to Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, and like most border cities, the towns operate in tandem, with U.S. citizens and green cardholders living, working and shopping on both sides. All of it is legal, but public school attendance by children living in Mexico is another issue.

"We had several van loads (with Mexican license plates) pulling up at the schools and kids getting out. It's like 'C'mon, it's obvious what's going on,'" said Kelt Cooper, superintendent of the San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District.

He directed district officials to stake out the bridge and warn students they could face expulsion if they don't prove they live in the district -- a move that's brought complaints from civil rights groups and support from anti-immigrant proponents.

"We have a law. We have a policy. We follow it," said Cooper, whose spent most of his life near the border and is uncomfortable with attempts to make him a cause celebre for either side of the immigration debate. "I'm just doing my job."

Like parents elsewhere who send their children to a better school across town, some parents living in northern Mexico send their children to American public schools believing they are safer and offer better education. Many also hope a U.S. education will provide better access to American colleges and universities.

Immigration status isn't an issue in these cases. A decades-old Supreme Court ruling prevents school officials from even asking about citizenship. Regardless, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, students who use the bridge enter the U.S. legally because they are U.S. citizens, permanent residents with green cards or Mexicans with student visas. Those visas are used by Mexican students who pay tuition, primarily at parochial schools.


Posted by Mizanur Rahman at September 21, 2009 03:36 PM

http://blogs.chron.com/immigration/arch ... alk_i.html

Don't these students give a mailing address to the school? I recall, when I was in elementary school, we had to prove we lived in that school's district....simple as that.

When something seems amiss ask yourself 'just follow the money.' Some schools probably don't enforce this provision because each body in a seat is more money for the school. Problem is that money comes from the taxpayers of the U.S.

If they're going to give a wink and nod about residency Mexico should help the school districts financially. Like that will happen.

Originally Posted by jean

Don't these students give a mailing address to the school? I recall, when I was in elementary school, we had to prove we lived in that school's district....simple as that.

When something seems amiss ask yourself 'just follow the money.' Some schools probably don't enforce this provision because each body in a seat is more money for the school. Problem is that money comes from the taxpayers of the U.S.

If they're going to give a wink and nod about residency Mexico should help the school districts financially. Like that will happen.

Usually what happens is these children have a relative who lives in the US and they use their address. It doesn't matter that twenty kids live there on paper, nobody checks that.
Most schools don't mind this because they get state funding for them so the more kids the better.
This happens all along the border and is not new by any means.

this needs to be done in el paso where about 50,000 students cross the border every morning to come to school

Schools do not care that we the taxpayers are broke.

Originally Posted by MountainDog

Originally Posted by jean

Don't these students give a mailing address to the school? I recall, when I was in elementary school, we had to prove we lived in that school's district....simple as that.

When something seems amiss ask yourself 'just follow the money.' Some schools probably don't enforce this provision because each body in a seat is more money for the school. Problem is that money comes from the taxpayers of the U.S.

If they're going to give a wink and nod about residency Mexico should help the school districts financially. Like that will happen.

Usually what happens is these children have a relative who lives in the US and they use their address. It doesn't matter that twenty kids live there on paper, nobody checks that.
Most schools don't mind this because they get state funding for them so the more kids the better.
This happens all along the border and is not new by any means.

These kids have a relative who lives in the US? Yea, and nobody checks to see if that relative is living in this country legally! God only knows how much money we spend on educating mexico's citizens who are in this country illegally.

The sense of entitlement and arrogance emanating from these people is quite disturbing! We are already under invasion and nobody in our government wants to do anything about It!

They are to show guardianship aren't they. I had to for a niece that came to live with me.