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Children from Palomas, Mexico catch school buses to attend school in New Mexico
kxan ^ | Sept. 26, 2019 | Sandra Sanchez

Posted on 09/26/2019 2:48:56 PM PDT by bgill

COLUMBUS, NEW MEXICO (Border Report) — Fifteen-year-old Luna Robledo, whose first name means moon, in Spanish, gets up in the moonlight around 5:45 a.m. every morning to prepare breakfast for her and her 11-year-old brother, who she has to rouse for school every weekday.

Both of their schools are in the United States, in Deming, New Mexico, about 45 miles from their home in Palomas, Mexico...

About 700 students from Palomas, Mexico, catch school buses here at the port of entry to attend public schools in the United States, said Philip Skinner who drives one of the buses.

Skinner owns the local hotel, Los Milagros, just three miles up the road and says driving the children is an easy $50 extra per day in his wallet. He drives the elementary children to Columbus Elementary School, here in Columbus.

The middle and high schoolers attend campuses in Deming about 30 miles away...

The principal for the Columbus Elementary School, Viridiana Chacon, told Border Report that 550 children at her campus — that’s 76 percent of her entire student body — live in Palomas, Mexico.

(Excerpt) Read more at kxan.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: illegals; immigration; usschools
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This has been going on for decades. They get "free" education and meals and one day forget to go back to Mexico.
1 posted on 09/26/2019 2:48:56 PM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill

Happens all along the border.


2 posted on 09/26/2019 2:49:58 PM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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When we registered our son for school we had to provide proof we lived in the district. Water bills, tax bills, etc. How do these people get away with this garbage?

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3 posted on 09/26/2019 2:52:09 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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New Mexico shouldn’t be getting any Federal funding for this. If they want to do it as a state, that’s their business. But soon they are going to have find a wall crossing or build their own school in Mexico.


4 posted on 09/26/2019 2:52:10 PM PDT by DannyTN
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New Mexico shouldn’t be getting any Federal funding for this. If they want to do it as a state, that’s their business. But soon they are going to have find a wall crossing or build their own school in Mexico.


5 posted on 09/26/2019 2:52:25 PM PDT by DannyTN
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BS!

FBS!!

GDFBS!!!

Enough of this GDMFBS!!!!


6 posted on 09/26/2019 2:55:13 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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It seems if I want to sign up for about anything, whoever it is wants all kinds of documentation and proof of this or that. No exception or grace.


7 posted on 09/26/2019 2:55:48 PM PDT by wally_bert (Hola. Me llamo Inspector Carlton Lassiter. Me gusta queso.)
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“They get “free” education and meals and one day forget to go back to Mexico.”

Generally speaking they pay tuition, just like any other out-of-district children. They are also not eligible for “free lunch” or other benefits.

It was a substantial money-maker for the district where I was on the school board. They were also generally some of the brighter kids — parents doctors and lawyers and whatnot in Mexico.


8 posted on 09/26/2019 2:59:37 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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They are, for the most part, American citizens, even so, in moat school districts you would have to pay tuition if you were out of district.


9 posted on 09/26/2019 2:59:59 PM PDT by tiki
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“How do these people get away with this garbage?”

They pay out-of-district tuition.


10 posted on 09/26/2019 3:00:01 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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Okay then. Thanks.


11 posted on 09/26/2019 3:01:49 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: bgill

New Mexico, Old Mexico, what’s the difference? Give ‘em a break!!! /s


12 posted on 09/26/2019 3:07:00 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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I don’t know if they still do but back in the day they all had a PO box in Columbus, it was PO Box 29 and they all used it.

Many of them bring drugs across too but Customs won’t put the drug dogs on the buses.

There was a bad kid who rode the bus and it didn’t seem to matter how bad he was they couldn’t throw him off the bus. They knew he was bringing drugs and asked Customs to run the drug dog. He finally did something so bad they were allowed to keep him off the buses and within a week the cartel murdered him because he was of no use to them anymore.


13 posted on 09/26/2019 3:07:24 PM PDT by tiki
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To: bgill

Was going on in the 60s


14 posted on 09/26/2019 3:08:41 PM PDT by rrrod
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To: DannyTN

They are all American citizens, born on your dime and they all receive food stamps and Medicaid too.


15 posted on 09/26/2019 3:09:15 PM PDT by tiki
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To: MeanWestTexan

Not in our district, but as I said most are citizens.


16 posted on 09/26/2019 3:11:00 PM PDT by tiki
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To: tiki

Well either we should annex those towns, or cancel their citizenship.


17 posted on 09/26/2019 3:11:56 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: miele man

Bookmark


18 posted on 09/26/2019 3:22:30 PM PDT by miele man
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To: bgill

LBG privilege.


19 posted on 09/26/2019 3:25:47 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Socialism is great, 300 million dead Socialist martyrs can't be wrong)
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To: miele man

Bookmark


20 posted on 09/26/2019 3:26:24 PM PDT by miele man
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