Atlas Puked...
Posted on 05/12/2008 6:32:07 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
DEMING -- Authorities in southern New Mexico are worried American students living in Palomas, New Mexico may get caught in the crossfire of drug cartel-related shootings.
"You feel in danger," said a student who crosses the border everyday to go to school in Deming.
Monday, was the first day students went back to school since seven people were killed in drug-related shootings over the weekend.
District officials in Deming say more than 400 students walk across the border from Palomas into Columbus, where they load into buses and go to schools in Deming.
District school buses then return the students back to the Palomas Port of Entry after school. They walk from a parking lot on the American side of the border across the port of entry and return to their homes in the small town.
Some students say dealing with the violence is a fact of life they have come to accept. "Some people who live in Columbus say Palomas is scary, but it's not for those of us who live here," said another student.
Law enforcement officials say they are doing their best to keep the students safe in the aftermath of the weekend's murders.
"We're very concerned that stray bullets would affect the safety & security of the children," said Luna County Sheriff Raymond Cobos, " so we want to make sure that we have justification for assigning deputies to help those kids."
Cobos said Sheriff's deputies and a crossing guard are on hand every day to keep an eye on students crossing the port of entry.
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How are these kids eligible to attend U.S. schools when they don’t live within the school district?
Short answer: Demonrats.
This is one of the dirty little secrets along the border - Mexican children attending US schools paid for by American taxpayers. My in-laws lived in Columbus when they were alive. I visited there in 1997 and heard that this was going on.
Not only that but there are many Mexican nationals living in Palomas who have post office boxes in Columbus so they can collect their welfare checks.
There is no border with Mexico. And there is no hope of this changing given the current presidential choices.
I don’t know how we are going to fix this peacefully.
What’s a few deaths in the pursuit of cheap labor?
What about my lettuce field? My bottom line?
And an endless supply of voters who can be bought?
Priorities, people./s
Atlas Puked...
“...are worried American students living in Palomas, New Mexico may get caught in the crossfire...”
Palomas is in Mexico, not New Mexico. Columbus is adjacent to Palomas and is in New Mexico. Columbus is the hamlet where Gen. Pershing marshalled his troops in order to go after Pancho Villa.
KVIA, the TV station reporting this news is in El Paso. They certainly should know that Columbus is only 50 miles west of Las Cruces which is, itself, only 46 miles north of El Paso, while Palomas is barely three miles south of Columbus. Shoddy writing and even shoddier editing.
Why doesn't Mexico take care of its own people? Why don't the ultra-wealthy Mexican elites help to pay for the health care and education etc of their own poor? Why do they instead encourage their poor to leave Mexico and invade the United States? Nature provides a parallel that is instructive.
Some species of birds thrive not by carefully rearing their own young, but by pawning that task off on adults of other species. The European Cuckoo, whose distinctive call is immortalized in the sound of the "cuckoo clock," is the bird in which this habit has been most thoroughly studied. Female European Cuckoos lay their eggs only in the nests of other species of birds. A cuckoo egg usually closely mimics the eggs of the host (one of whose eggs is often removed by the cuckoo).
The host may recognize the intruding egg and abandon the nest, or it may incubate and hatch the cuckoo egg. Shortly after hatching, the young European Cuckoo, using a scoop-like depression on its back, instinctively shoves over the edge of the nest any solid object that it contacts. With the disappearance of their eggs and rightful young, the foster parents are free to devote all of their care to the young cuckoo. Frequently this is an awesome task, since the cuckoo chick often grows much larger than the host adults long before it can care for itself. One of the tragicomic scenes in nature is a pair of small foster parents working like Sisyphus to keep up with the voracious appetite of an outsized young cuckoo.
Last I heard Richardson was going to talk to the State Department to try to get them to lessen their warnings about the dangers of going to Mexico to the tourists, so the tourists would start going back. LOL our boy is right on top of the situation.
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Thousands of children cross the border every day to attend school in the U.S. They are U.S. citizens and our powers that be decided long ago that meant we are obligated to educate them. Many women cross the border to have their babies- with no intention of ever living in this country, simply to get citizenship for their children in this country. (of course we have the additional problems of those that do move here- but this is a seperate issue of concern) We really, really need to end citizenship for simply being born here.
Their mama crossed over here to have them. Making them instantly citizens entitled to an education here according to our politicians and courts.
They are leaving shortly, we have been told their mission on the border is over.
So an American citizen can attend any school of their choice regardless of whether or not they live within the school district boundaries? American citizens who don't happen to live in Mexico certainly aren't entitled to do that.
I agree, my daughter lives in El Paso and had to prove she lived in my grandson’s actual school district in order to enroll him in school. I have no idea how the paperwork is done for those living in Mexico.
I’m almost certain Palomas is in MEXICO not New Mexico (stupid reporter!) and I wonder if the kids being bused in the US are really American citizens. Of course, they may be anchor babies who were born on the American side of the border.
susie
LOL!
He clearly identifies more as a Latino than as an American. Such an embarrassment to the state.
susie
That’s what I thought I remembered. I took a college class way back about Pancho Villa. We took a field trip to Columbus (that’s why I took the class, it had a field trip!). We walked across the border and had a beer (we were underage). Wasn’t much there.
susie
I went to schools in district only by consolidation. I also graduated from a school not only out of district but out of state in the early seventies and know of many instances of the same to this day. My stepson went to school across the state line and I asked about the paperwork and was told “Don’t worry about it.” Who needs vouchers?
Yes Palomas is in Mexico- I don’t live too far from there; Columbus is the US town this side.
In the last 10-15 years a lot of snow birds moved in to nearby Deming and they got together and threw a hissy fit about the kids from Palomas going to school in Columbus and Deming- at that time the school buses actually crossed the border and went from house to house in Mexico. They did make them stop the bus route into Mexico, they are now picked up on the U.S. side- but that is when it came up that the students are U.S, Citizens, and it was confirmed by CBP that the students that cross daily to attend school are U.S, Citizens.
Many Mexican women cross the border to have their babies when they have no intention to ever live here- it is for the citizenship and all the goodies that go with it- mainly the education, but no doubt they use it to leverage other things.
Richardson’s mother and most of his family live in Mexico- there have been rumors for years that he was actually born in Mexico- but he seems to have documents that say otherwise. He truly does identify more with Mexico.
My husband’s father used to own a ranch in Deming, I think.
Anyway, yeah, the crossing the border to have American babies has been going on a long time. Back when I lived in Midland (we left there in the early 90s, so this was probably even in the 80s and earlier) a friend who worked at the local hospital in labor and delivery told me that they frequently had Mexican nationals come in and have their *American baby*. She said they would show up with medical records from MEXICO, and just come to our wonderful hospital to have their baby so it would be born in the US. This is why we should get rid of automatic birthright citizenship.
susie
Yes. I still have family in NM and he’s an embarrassment to them.
susie
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