District cracks down on ‘illegal’ students

By Jennifer Killin


Published September 10, 2009

It's one of the public school district's worst-kept secrets – children from Mexico crossing the border to attend Del Rio schools.

“This has been going on for years. Everyone knows about it. When you see truckloads of kids walking across the bridge with backpacks after school, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out where they're coming from,â€