I don’t know how that works — whether they are paying via a voucher system or whether NM residents are picking up the tab for them. For that matter some may be US citizens living in Mexico (Mom came across to give birth and then went home). You’re right — all types of issues to be sorted out
This is the case. There was a fuss about all the students coming across several years ago and the explanation was that they are U.S. citizens so they cannot be denied school. The schools win because they get federal money per student. Taxpayers lose because they pay to educate children whose parents are not paying taxes in the district...it is another border issue. In 1999 one of the students from Mexico actually shot a girl at the middle school and she died. It caused an uproar locally but nothing was changed. This was back when things that happened on the border were not reported and if you told people they didn't believe it.