Mexican Students Denied Texas Schooling

www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/11/texas.border.schools/index.html

The above article reports how in states along the Mexican border, many hundreds of students cross the border to go to American schools -- in this case Texas. My first question was, "How are so many people getting through border patrol EVERY day?" After reading I guess it's the citizenship of the children that allows their freedom to enter. Still, hundreds of children whose families do not fund the schools with their taxes are attending these schools. If any of the students have special needs (a statistical likelihood), they're pulling quite a bit of money out of the school's budget. The law in Texas is that you can't go to a school in a county you don't share residence; U.S. citizenship is irrelevant.

The issue is that many children will be denied educational opportunity. (Surely there are schools south of the border...) The idea of having the parents pay for the tuition is a possibility, but it's said that doesn't work. The school fears that if they turn away so many students, they will get a budget cut, so the school can't win no matter what. I guess it's an ethical matter for the school board: "Can we use tax-payers' money to educate children whose parents aren't paying their share? Is keeping the students in school here more important?"