Mexicans walking across border to milk free education for children.

[CONSERVATIVE HERO]

Mexican children cross border to go to school (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4758501.html)
Their trek to El Paso is common, but some call students costly

By SARAH VIREN
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle

For the past two years, Rachel Ortiz's commute to her El Paso school has begun each morning in Mexico.

As the sun rises over that side of the Rio Grande, the first-grader follows her father from their cinder-block home through the streets of Ciudad Juarez.

Aaron Ortiz holds his 6-year-old's pink backpack and later her hand. At the border they funnel onto the pedestrian bridge alongside dozens of other children with backpacks holding parents' hands. Then they are on the other side, saying goodbye at the gates of Vilas Elementary, where breakfast is served free and special classes are offered for English-language learners.

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The El Paso Independent School District, which expects to take in 10,000 new students in the next five to eight years, will ask voters next month for permission to borrow $230 million for new schools.

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And often in places such as El Paso — where hospitals are just a quick trip across the border — students were born in the United States and are legal citizens, even if their parents aren't.

[libertyman]

Why should people who call themselves "conservative" upset about this? After all, they are the folks who elected people who refuse to protect our borders into office.

You reap what you sow.

[Rhino]

From what I see, it has practically nothing to do with protecting the borders. If these kids are indeed US citizens, then their crossing of the border is legal. However, I'd be pissed if I lived in that school district, and had to have my tax dollars support kids from outside the district.

[The_Elucidator]

From what I see, it has practically nothing to do with protecting the borders. If these kids are indeed US citizens, then their crossing of the border is legal. However, I'd be pissed if I lived in that school district, and had to have my tax dollars support kids from outside the district.

As far as the thread goes, Rhino you are spot on! You want the benefits of going to a nice school district you live in the school district and pony up the cash! No free rides! :nono:

[Wolfcounsel]

"Why should people who call themselves "conservative" upset about this? After all, they are the folks who elected people who refuse to protect our borders into office." --libertyman

I'm pretty sure no libertarian candidate will lift a finger to protect our borders. As a matter of fact, he will probably stick his thumbs up his ass all the way to his elbows.

[Phil Osophical]

This is by no means limited to the El Paso area. It's happening all along the Texas border, particularly in deep south Texas (Brownsville; McAllen). Furthermore, the Brownsville public school system sends school buses across the river every morning pick them up and take them back in the afternoon. I saw on another forum this morning that Mexican parents and their kids in Matamoros (across from Brownsville) are staging rallies to protest the lack of ethnic food their kids are being served [for free] in American public schools.

The city of Brownsville also provides 911 emergency medical service to Mexican citizens in Matamoros. About one half of the patients are pregnant Mexican women who are plopping out anchor babies.

Oh well I guess it's but yet another small sacrifice and price to pay to promote and encourage racial diversity and multiculturalism in America. Keep on voting for Democrats -- it'll make you guilt-ridden, self-righteous conservatives feel better about yourselves.

[CONSERVATIVE HERO]

From what I see, it has practically nothing to do with protecting the borders. If these kids are indeed US citizens, then their crossing of the border is legal. However, I'd be pissed if I lived in that school district, and had to have my tax dollars support kids from outside the district.
Howso? Non-citizens shouldn't even be able to cross over to have their "anchor babies" in the first place. It's a blatant scam perpetrated for the purpose of spitting out children, which serve as greencards, by the thousands if not millions. Parents who live in Mexico cross over to have babies in American hospitals, then send those children to America for an education, with both the hospital bills and the education usually subsidized by the American taxpayer.

It's just one more con perpetrated by a nation of con artists who seek only to exploit America.

Clearly the policy of infant naturalization should be revised. Citizenship at birth should be granted only to those children born to parents which are citizens themselves.

[Rhino]

Howso? Non-citizens shouldn't even be able to cross over to have their "anchor babies" in the first place.I was speaking of the kids, who are presumably citizens. How they got to be citizens in the first place was not what I was addressing, and was why I used the word "practically". People who call themselves "conservative" are upset about this in particular because it is an abuse of tax dollars for the school system, not because it's a border protection issue. You don't protect the border against citizens.

[Wolfcounsel]

"People who call themselves "conservative" are upset about this in particular because it is an abuse of tax dollars for the school system, not because it's a border protection issue. You don't protect the border against citizens." --Rhino

If you can show that the founding fathers meant that even cockroaches who sneak across illegally and give birth to babies have automatically a U.S. citizen, I will consider the issue. As an American, I should not be obligated to take care of any parasites.

[Rhino]

If you can show that the founding fathers meant that even cockroaches who sneak across illegally and give birth to babies have automatically a U.S. citizen, I will consider the issue. As an American, I should not be obligated to take care of any parasites.Again, I never said that, nor addressed it. I happen to agree with you. It just wasn't the issue involving these schoolkids, nor were those kids a matter of 'border protection', as libertyman was intimating.

[Wolfcounsel]

"It just wasn't the issue involving these schoolkids, nor were those kids a matter of 'border protection', as libertyman was intimating." --Rhino

Okay. I still say first things first. Those school kids that are U.S. citizens born of cockroaches who sneaked across illegally need to have their citizenship stripped. Let's hear it from the mollycoddlers out there.

[Rhino]

Works for me.