((Wilson, Jim. An Education, Over the Border and Under the Radar. New York Times. Web.))
Dozens of students — all American citizens living in Tijuana — cross the border daily to attend a public high school 11 miles away in Chula Vista, Calif., where they were born and where they still claim to live. These teenagers stand for hours in a human chain of 16,000 at the world’s busiest international land border.
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Martha holds her passport in a line waiting to cross into the United States. Transfronterizos fly under the radar in some school districts, while others pursue them with truancy officers. They live with the anxiety of having to lie and the possibility that the education they seek will be taken from them.
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Students wait to present their passports at the border crossing in Tijuana. Martha has crossed the border on and off since she was 5. In Tijuana, “sometimes people think we’re higher than them,” she says, because she attends a U.S. high school. But as a Mexican in San Diego, “they look you up and down.”
