Posted on 07/03/2010 4:12:12 PM PDT by curth
New Mexico is paying to bus and educate Mexican students in the United States… And, they’ve been doing this for 40 years! Pancho Villa would be proud. Via Judicial Watch:
In a town famous for Pancho Villa’s ransacking, the purloining still occurs; this time horses and mules are not disappearing, but taxpayer money is. Columbus, New Mexico is just 3 miles north of Palomas, Mexico and is one of the many border towns mired in the border fence, illegal immigration, and drug smuggling. The culprit in this case, however, is not El Chapo or a coyote, but rather residents in Mexico expecting American taxpayer benefits.
Many families in Palomas, Mexico choose to send their children to Deming Public School District. Regardless of citizenship, these Palomas students are ineligible for Deming Public School education as they live out of the district and are not supporting the school through taxes. In 1996, The Albuquerque Journal noted that students residing in Mexico have been educated in the United States for free for over 40 years.
Judicial Watch investigated this matter of “free” education. For school year 2008-2009, 506 students were transported from the Port of Entry to Deming Public Schools (and this number has been increasing for the past three years). Typically, the students cross the border where a public school bus waits for them and then transports them 30 miles to the schools in Deming. The source of funding for theses students is part of the district allotment which is based on services (busing, English as a second language, etc). Based on an average district enrollment of 5447, total operational cost of $36,254,672, and 460 students bused from the port of entry in 2007-2008, on average $3,061,712.71 was spent on students picked up at the Port of Entry. The law firm handling the request specifically notes that “funding is based on total services for all the students in the district and is not calculated on a child by child method. Therefore, we do not have the information of the funding by any specific child.” In essence, if the school is already providing such services, then the additional students may not be costing anything extra; but here’s the catch, 460 students is necessarily going to result in a need for more services like additional teachers, additional meals, transportation, special instruction, etc. The amount of additional money is not insignificant especially given that New Mexico will receive $537,047,803 from President Obama’s stimulus plan to “lay the foundation for a generation of education reform and help save thousands of teaching jobs at risk due to state and local budget cuts.” That’s right, the stimulus money will indirectly be funding education for students whose families do not pay taxes.
Everything you have said is true.
If Santa Anna hadn't slaughtered everybody at Goliad and the Alamo, who knows what would have happened.
Maybe I've been reading too many Elmer Kelton books lately.
Do you know what treaty that was? The name of it? Just curious. Thanks.
Sorry but that is not true any more- pro family? They leave families everywhere they go for the rest of us to support. They vote Democrat- even if the candidate is pro-choice. As to them building a wall against the Muslims with their strong religious beliefs- nope, not that any more either and many are becoming Muslims- they might be strongly Muslim.
“The anglos who lived in Mexico (Texas) were citizens of Mexico, and many of them did not want the war.”
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Hummm, I’m a descendant of the “Old 300” and that’s not really accurate. They were known as Texicans, forced to be Catholics but still held to Protestant beliefs when not watched by the Alcalde. When the time came to fight, they fought for Texas, not Mexico.
Not exactly free.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which brought an official end to the Mexican-American War (1846–48), was signed on February 2, 1848 . The U.S. paid Mexico $15 million and absorbed another $3 million in debts, and acquired New Mexico, Arizona and California. The treaty ended Mexican claims to own Texas, which had been the cause of the war.
The property rights enjoyed by the Hispanic population under Mexican rule were respected by the United States, and the inhabitants would had one year to return to Mexico or stay and become full-fledged American citizens.
http://www.conservapedia.com/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo
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Wow, I am utterly speechless!!
I think you may be referring to the Treaty of Gualalupe-Hildago signed in 1848.
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