Posted on 05/25/2010 7:48:09 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Every child deserves a chance at an education.
But when that opportunity is taken away, some have to find other means of getting it, even if that means going to another country.
"This past month and a half we've picked up approximately an extra 90 students," said Rio Grande City CISD Superintendent Roel Gonzalez.
That number could rise if the violence in Mexico continues.
"For the kids that come over the parents will tell you right away that they're American citizens,” said Gonzalez. “By right they deserve to be educated."
Rio Grande City was growing in population, even before the violence in Mexico started.
To keep up with the growth the city started construction on a new high school that can hold about 2,500 students, and still have room to go if needed.
"If we have a large growth, because of the situation we're in right now, it could cause a ripple effect into our high schools," said Gonzalez.
Gonzalez said while they do not anticipate a large increase in their high schools, they have to be prepared for whatever might come their way.
"What we're looking at is where we put the anticipated growth, it will be displaced between both high schools if it happens," said Gonzalez.
My white child must show a US birth certificate to attend school. Each year the school district audits us and we must produce papers (tax forms and bills) proving that we actually live in the district they attend school in.
Let me count: health care is a “right;” “living wage is a right;” and now “education in America” even when you live in a foreign country (yes, Mexico is still a foreign country)!
Hopefully Texans rise up and defend their border to prevent this.
“By right they deserve to be educated.”
They should have the right to be educated in Mexico....this is true.
Exactly You must show proof. It doesn’t say in the article whether the parents provide a BC altho I guess they do
but these kids get a FREE education. with the mexican parents living in mexico they pay zero .
nice gig
We must stop the anchor baby crap
Let us take the opportunity to thank the US Supreme Court for the idiotic Plyer v. Doe decision.
Exactly You must show proof. It doesn’t say in the article whether the parents provide a BC altho I guess they do
but these kids get a FREE education. with the mexican parents living in mexico they pay zero .
nice gig
We must stop the anchor baby crap
And where is that right written?
Paying for the education of other peoples children that are citizens of a foreign nation. I must have old copies of the Texas and US Constitutions, I can not seem to find that right.
Interesting citizenship question on 14th amendment. Seems it is a tie vote - we need to sue and break the tie.
Senator Jacob M. Howard of Michigan—the author of the Citizenship Clause—described the clause as excluding American Indians who maintain their tribal ties, and “persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers.” He was supported by other senators, including Edgar Cowan, Reverdy Johnson, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lyman Trumbull.[6] Howard further stated the term jurisdiction meant “the same jurisdiction in extent and quality as applies to every citizen of the United States now”[6] and that the United States possessed a “full and complete jurisdiction” over the person described in the amendment.[7][8][6] Other senators, including Senator John Conness,[9] supported the amendment, believing citizenship should cover all children born in the United States.
In Elk v. Wilkins, 112 U.S. 94 (1884), the clause’s meaning was tested regarding whether it meant that anyone born in the United States would be a citizen regardless of the parents’ nationality. In that case, the Supreme Court held that the children of Native Americans were not citizens, despite the fact that they were born in the United States.
The meaning was tested again in the case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898) regarding children of non-citizen Chinese immigrants born in United States. The court ruled that the children were U.S. citizens.[10]
if you read the decision it left the door open to be revisited, why hasn’t it, the criteria are now here...
I like big borders and I cannot lie
I like my fences really high
With machine guns on the tops
Trucks full of cops
And the INS standing by.
Apologies to Sir-Mix-A-Lot.
Plyler vs Texas is the decision. I’ve been meaning to review it lately, in fact.
At the time, I believe they said their ruling would only affect about 40,000 children and that was cited in the ruling. In other words, that’s not so many kids, so it’s no big deal.
How they missed the notion that this would be interpreted as a welcome mat, I will never know.
I can understand the sentiment of a Mexican parent, btw. In the best of cases, a child of Mexico gets to sixth grade. That’s it. That is all they pay for. Even that isn’t much to write home about. It’s well known that most people migrating here from Mexico are literate in neither English or Spanish; they are illiterate in both languages. Graduating from sixth grade in Mexico is about the same as third or fourth grade in the US. If I were a mom in Mexico, I’d move heaven and earth to get my kid on that Rio Grande bus, too.
Especially if I knew there were dumbass American officials willing to facilitate it.
It says their right to an education was taken away. Who took it away? Mexico?
Correction of my post. It says OPPORTUNITY, not right...
And you know what?
Today, for the first time, I realized why these illegal immigration protests burn me up so much. I’m in S. Utah, so I’m surrounded. I was waiting in a line in Walgreen for a prescription, behind an amigo, but a friendly one. He got to the counter first, and long story short, he was denied his prescription because our state version of Medicaid (I don’t know the name) was already closed. It was 6:05. He was most unhappy. And then it hit me. Where is the GRATITUDE?
Who are the PR people advising these guys, seriously? Instead of holding up signs making demands, I’d be telling them to hold up these signs:
Thank you for the medical care and for saving our lives!
Thanks America, for giving us a better education than Mexico does.
Gracias America, for letting our children dream big dreams!
Thanks America, for letting us work and try to save, so we can be the best we can be.
We will try to make you proud for the money you have invested in us!
But I see none of this. There is no gratitude, and there are no thank yous. Anything resembling that would turn almost any immigration hard-liner, (as we are a benevolent people) into a pussycat.
Instead of thank yous and gratitude, we get demands that we conform to THEM and their wishes.
For this reason, there will always be a soft war between our differing sides.
If the children are being educated there, their parents should pay their fair share of educating that child and not expect the US to pay for their child's education.
Usually American citizens on the border don’t mind, for they expect “the rich” to pay the educational expenses.
of course you are right but it will neve happen.
I guess at that we, the texpayers, are getting away cheap.
if the anchor babies still lived in the USA we’d also be paying their housing and food stamps
now all we pay is the 11k for each student as well as breakfast lunch and take home snacks and of course free innoculations etc
“And where is that right written?”
It’s right after the implied right to privacy that somehow allows people to kill a baby.
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