Posted on 04/09/2011 6:45:46 AM PDT by La Lydia
Standing in the main foyer of Burges High School in El Paso, Texas, it's easy to think you had accidentally crossed the border into Mexico. Left and right, students are greeting each other in Spanish and kissing each other's cheeks, as they would in Mexico. Drug violence has forced thousands of Mexican families to seek refuge in the U.S. As a result, some students are entering U.S. classrooms along the Southwest border with traumas that schools have never seen before.
And with so few people willing to talk about it, many aren't getting the help they need.
In border cities, it's common for students from Mexico to go to school in the U.S. Some were born in the U.S. but raised in Mexico, and their families feel they'll have better opportunities if they go to an American school. But in recent years, motivation to cross the border has changed. Horrific drug-related violence in Mexico is forcing some families to flee, often in a hurry.
Susan Crews, lead counselor for the El Paso Independent School District, has seen what witnessing that violence can do to a child....
Most school counselors are not trained to handle the psychological needs of these new students, and many students are fearful about sharing their stories and don't ask for help. So they often suffer in silence....
Because El Paso is home to the Army's Fort Bliss, local school districts offer counselor training in post-traumatic stress disorder for children of military families. Some school counselors are applying that training to students from Mexico, but counselor Crews thinks the district needs programs designed specifically for survivors of Mexican violence....
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If these pinheads would spend more time "protesting" in THEIR OWN COUNTRIES, TO THEIR OWN GOVERNMENTS, they might be able to do something about the problem. Unfortunately, THEIR GOVERNMENTS are too busy complaining to the U.S. "Congress" and the college "students" in this country about how "evil, mean and racist" the American gringos are while THEY are out in the American streets protesting the same ****.
Exactly! That's what I have always said. We are hurting the people still living in Mexico when we accept the would be protesters and would be revolutionists and would be voters against the staus quo in Mexico.
Where would we Americans be today if those who participated in our revolutionary war just went to France to live instead of making change right here?
And if France encouraged them to leave America would France have been helping future generations or hurting future generations.
That is one reason why I am against Amnesty and the McCains/Obamas of this country.
Their ideas are NOT in the best interest of the Mexican people still living in their homeland.
open borders ping
I thought Americans doing drugs was a victimless crime?
But what gets my goat about this story is the casual assumption that is OUR responsibility, that we have an obligation to take care of and provide counseling to the traumatized students, and that Mexico has nothing to do with it. The vast majority of these kids are from Juarez, their mothers managed to crawl across the bridge and give birth in US, at the public Thomason hospital in El Paso, and so we have a crop of traumatized anchor babies whose expectation of “their” country, the US, is that unlimited resources will be made available to them.
I know what you mean. When our economy collapses I think you'll be seeing those parts of liberalism collapsing too.
PROFITABLE CON GAME Mexican illegals are using the asylum scam to get on the US gravy train--claiming drug violence "forced" them to flee over the border.
THE ASYLUM RIPOFF UP CLOSE A Social Security category provides outrageous government financial aid to "refugees" claiming "persecution." These phonies never paid a dime into the SS system; yet, they can collect seven years straight...... and can get extended payments if they are politically well-connected. The SS checks can amount to $1000 a month, and more. And that's for one identity---
Evidence shows illegals establish several identities with phony SS nos and fake documents (which "impoverished immigrants" buy from itinerant document brokers for several thousand dollars). Washington state rapist, Jose Madrigal, had 30 identities.
Earned Income Tax Credit is also available to immigrants who obtain legal work status. But the law allows immigrants to claim EITC for up to three years prior to obtaining that status. Workers simply file a tax return for the years in which they were not legally eligible to work in the US. The most widespread abuse stems from the requirement that children live with the worker for more than six months of the year. IRS does little to verify the claim.
Many immigrants claim non-existent children, or claim children who they’ve left behind with relatives. Those with two or more children and income below $32,121 could get as much as $4,008. It is estimated that illegals got $22 billion EITC refunds.
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WHAT IS THE MERIDA INITIATIVE? The US Congress passed legislation in late June 2008 to provide Mexico with $400 million and Central American countries with $65 million that year for the Mérida Initiative---to fight drug wars. The initiative was announced 22 Oct 2007 and signed into law June 30, 2008.
THE FACTS ARE THESE : Mexico is calculatedly staging the "war on drugs" ------- with a hidden agenda------to wage war against the United States USING OUR TAX DOLLARS. Mexico has infiltrated the US political system, from domestic to foreign policy, AND US L/E, using deceit and guile. The mexican govt is sending millions of Reconquista shock troops over the border (illegal aliens) cueing them in WRT taking the US system.
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Central America and Mexico are conning the US -----extorting US tax dollars to support Marxist/terrorist movement via the Merida Initiative----a despicable con to arm its police and military using US tax dollars to protect terrorists and drug cartels who are moving across the border into the US.
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Clearly, the Mexican govt is fomenting drug violence in order to: (1) get billions of dollars in US assistance, and, (2) to help their populations flee over the border claiming they are victims of violence and need "asylum." Asylum claims gets illegals thousands of dollars in SS funds.
Mexican Federales are getting rich using some familiar strategies:
(1) plotting to become a ward of the US;
(2) faking victimization;
(3) secretly revving up internal conflicts;
(4) play-acting the ignoramus;
(5) claiming they can't "control" their enemies without US money;
(6) organizing voting blocs----exchanging votes for US cash.
ACTION NOW---Stop all funding for this con game. Tell your reps to stop funding the anti-American Merida Initiative now.
Sure glad we are without trauma and have no debt, so that we can provide these poor children all that they want and need.
Free schools? Of course.
Welfare? Of course.
In state college tuition? Obviously. Why give it to some rich American child?
The help they need is the replacement of their corrupt government so they can stay in their own country and go to school. Since we have invaded every other country in the world why not take over Mexico and do a little nation building?
This is why we MUST stop granting citizenship based on the child just being born here. To the Mexicans, having a child or several on U.S. soil is like winning the lottery.
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