At the beginning of September, Channel 5 News revealed a shocking story in Roma, Texas. As their cameras chronicled, each morning dozens of Mexican kids are crossing the border from Mexico into the Texas border town of Roma to attend an American school, free of charge. You read that correctly. American tax money is funding the education of kids who actually live IN Mexico and who are illegally crossing the border every single day to attend U.S. schools. I have waited a suitable period of time to bring this story up, hoping that the national news sources will pick up on this absurd violation of our National sovereignty and misuse of our tax money… yet not a peep has been heard to my knowledge.
It is estimated that $4 million has been spent on Mexican kids just in Roma, Texas, alone. And no one really even knows how much has been thrown down the rat hole in other Texas border towns, not to mentions similar towns in other border states.
News Channel 5 reported on the 6th of September that these Mexican kids are getting a free education from US taxpayers because the county schools do not have very stringent residency requirements. (See video here)
Even more ridiculously, school administrators report that they aren’t even allowed to ask if a student is a U.S. citizen before admitting them to class.
The report also reveals that no one in the school system is even bothering to keep track of how many schools are giving a free education to children whose parents are not U.S. taxpayers.
Here is the full Channel 5 report:
Taxpayer Money Used to Educate Mexican Nationals — Over four million spent in Roma alone
ROMA – An estimated 650 kids from Mexico are going to public school in Roma.
They come to America for a better education.
The annual cost of an education is nearly $7,000 a student, which works out to $4,500,000 spent on Mexican students of your tax dollars spent. That’s in Roma alone.
The truth is, no one knows the actual money being spent, because no one is actually keeping track.
The reason? Parents only have to prove U.S. residency once. After that, the student is set until they graduate.
Proving residency is as simple as providing a Roma address.
School administrators say they can’t ask if a student is a legal U.S. citizen.
Administrators say American students don’t “do without” because of students from Mexico. They tell us the district gets state and federal funding for every student, even those from across the border.
Is this not outrageous? I certainly find it so.
Then, why have the national news services all ignored this story?
But, we really do know why this isn’t being stopped by the county and state school districts, don’t we? It’s because Federal and state monies are dolled out to our schools by the amount of children counted filing seats in the schools. That being the case, there is no way they will do the right thing and refuse these kids. After all, the more kids in their schools, the more money the schools receive for their budget.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackDamn schools not able to check citizenship status, and when they try this (http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=662407) happens!!!
I know where a few Mexican kids are that go to U.S. schools, all on the taxpayers’ dimes. They get taught in “English as a Second Language” (ESL) classes because they can’t function in the schools with just Spanish. Probably all kinds of freebies like immunizations too, just because they’re in the United States.
They’re *MY* kids…
They’re *MEXICAN CITIZENS* because that is where our family is in the *legal* immigration process…
I’m one of the taxpayers, living in this school district for the last 38 years, even attending the same schools my kids do now. Damn straight the schools are going to teach my kids. And if my kids can’t be taught in English the school better teach them in their native language of Spanish (easier for my school district, so rather lucky the language wasn’t something like East Timorean).
Schools can’t inquire to a child’s citizenship because there can be fully *legal* immigrants that live in a U.S. school district, needing to be taught. Don’t like the facts that my kids aren’t U.S. citizens and attending school in the U.S.? Fine, provide them (and my wife) the U.S. citizenship that we are working *legally* to attain.
Quit being so anti-*immigrant* (If you don’t make the distinction between legal and illegal immigration then you are anti-immigrant)…
If you want to stop taxpayer drains, stop a war or something. Whoops, that’s the same war I was notified to deploy for a fifth tour in that area, while my family *waited* to be legally admitted to the United States. As a soldier and sailor over the last 22 years I think I have earned the ability to have my family in the United States, with the kids attending school here.
As a general nature, schools have a better “ROI” (Return On Investment) than wars anyway…
Hi Mr. Hudson,
I’m a journalism student originally from Texas and was interested in what you’ve posted here. I was hoping you wouldn’t mind answering a few questions.
Is this situation still going on in Roma? Has anything changed since late 2007? Or has there been any promise of change by the state or federal gov’t?
Just curious…a reply would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Why talk about kids trying to better their education. Kids are our future. Have we overlooked that our tax money also pays for the buildings, homes and schools we bombed in Iraq to build them again for terrorists. Not only that but the troops killed down their and people just upset about kids crossing over to american schools to get a better education.WTF
I’m weary of this garbage. The people of Roma and Ciudad Miguel Aleman are one people. They have crossed that river for thousands of years. Then some bureaucrat draws a line and says don’t cross it. What are they supposed to do? What would you do?
The problem with your argument is if those kids don’t get an education they will someday cross anyway for menial work. They will cross undocumented to feed their families and people like you will bash them for that as well.
The Mexican government is corrupt. It has serious problems, but so does Uncle Sam. The only people who pay to educate those children are the people who own property and pay taxes to that district. I personally think it’s a great thing. It is what a Christian people should do. Your hatred disgusts me.
I am a teacher at an elementary in the city of Roma. And yes, I would say that perhaps a fourth of the students currently enrolled at my elementary and the four others are residents of Mexico. It is wrong for people to automatically assume that administrators allow this for extra funding. We DO check for U.S. residency at the beginning of the school year every year. And if a teacher suspects during the school year that a student is crossing on a daily basis from Mexico, the appropriate actions are taken to ensure that this student is removed from school. Although I think it is stupid to do so. Why would we want to take these students out? Don’t they have the same human rights your kids have? They might not have the same ‘U.S.’ rights but they are humans and have every right to learn and grow, and maybe one day improve and give to their children what their parents couldn’t give them. Ignorant people that have never dealt with this situation automatically assume that mexicans are abusing u.s. rights. You are wrong, isn’t it the american thing to go, conquer and force people to think and behave the same way americans do? This kind of thinking from ignorant people upsets me. Where is the humanity!?
About kids crossing the border to go school,I think there is no problem. You don`t know if their parents are american citizens even if this kids were born in Mexico they are american citizens by birth not by land and they have the same rights as a U.S. citizen. Don`t come with that, that your are paying taxes for this kids.It happen to me the same thing I was born across the border from Roma,Texas but my mom was born in Kennedy ,Texas and when I was a freshman in high school principal Barrera wanted for me to drop off of school because he needed proof of citizen. We went to immigration and let them know, but they told us there was no problem. So,I think there is no problem for kids from acrooss the border crossing that bridge to come to school. And if they want to live acrooss the border thats their problem. Probably the rent and bills are cheaper acroos the border then on this side. Thank you
Ummm excuse me, but I live in Texas and can’t just send my kid to any school in town that I want! It’s hell to get a transfer and if I want to go to the best school on the other side of town I’d have to pay tuition! How is it okay for kids to live in another country (not just a mile over in the same town) and be able to NOT attend school in their own district? So their parents might want to live in Mexico and get cheaper rent, but why aren’t they required to live in the COUNTRY much less the school district? This is not fair to other kids in Texas who are denied transfers and to parents who actually pay to send kids out of district. Why don’t these people move here and into the school district if they are legal immigrants, working on it or whatever? Why do they have more rights than my kids. No one seems to even take note of the word “illegal”. It’s like it doesn’t even exist, but if they are illegal, why don’t they come on over and move into the school district, pay rent, utilities, etc. like everyone else?
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