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Many schools near the border in America have students who live on the other side of the border. These students can be referred to as transborder students as they live in Mexico but attend school in the United States. There are thousands of elementary through high school students that cross the Mexican-American border. They are known to wake up in the early hours of the morning to make their way to the border, where they wait in long lines to cross into the United States. After crossing the border, the students find a ride to school. Many students come to America for the opportunity, because it has a more developed and organized educational system. Students who go to school in America have a better chance of reaching higher education in the US. In many parts of Mexico schooling is only required for students up to age sixteen. Many of the transborder students are natural born US citizens. Students that were born in America have the right to an American education even if they do not live in America. In places like the San Diego and Tijuana border, it is much cheaper to live in Mexico. San Diego has a high cost of living and one of the highest student homeless rates in the country, so many families move to Tijuana because it is more affordable to raise a family.

In order to stop kids living in Mexico from coming to America for school, some Bordertown schools require official documentation (such as bills, mail, etc.) from the students, to show that the students live in that specific school district. In Brownsville, Texas, a city on the southern border of Texas that neighbors Matamoros, Mexico there was the case that ruled that the districts cannot deny students education if they have the proper paperwork. Many transborder students who live in these districts with these requirements will use extended family members’ addresses to prove their residency. Many questions about the legitimacy of students have risen since the Trump administration took office in 2017, making it more of a risk to cross the border for school. There is so little statistical information because students are less open about talking.

-TIjuana

Teachers in San Ysidro say as many as 1,000 students cross the border every morning to go to school.

-      “he has more of a furute in the US” says a parent

using hid birth ceritifcate – using reletavies bills/ addresses

-on the other side of the birder- kids will take skaeboards and bikes to get to school

-Many are American born- families move to Tijuana

- cost of living in California(e San Ysidro School District has 33% homeless rate)

-families who have been removed and want their children to hae US education- will have children live with releatives

-THe stress that goes on the kids because they hear everydat about building a wall. They are made to feel like others

https://www.npr.org/2017/06/17/533118558/for-some-students-getting-an-education-means-crossing-the-border

Arixona- San Luis(mexico)

-US citizens are questions now going across the border

- . The word is, because of overcrowding, registration requirements will tighten. The Yuma Union High School District had received complaints blaming the crowded conditions on students who live in Mexico – students like Eduardo

-they are trying to get numbers of how many students are coming across the border- but all the paperwork uses American addreesses

-waking up at 4:30- 5AM to cross border- workers and students wait to ceoss-

the sidtrict doesn’t require them to

Brownsville

The supreme court ruled that this violated the Equal Protection Clause. “Constitutionally, you cannot reject a child from coming to school if they have followed the proper enrollment procedures of the school district. We don’t ask questions about whether the students are properly immigrated or are legal, that’s not the role of educational systems in the United States,” Zendejas said.

-many talk about the American Dream and the opppurtunity

New Mexico

-850 students that accounted

-American school bus is awiting

-symbolic of a vetter school- to attend school (Mexico