Many Mexicans moved back to Mexico because the cost of living is cheaper than in the United States. However, they feel that their children should still receive education in the United States rather than in Mexico, and these children became what is known as the “transfronterizos.”
California teenagers start their mornings with crossing guards and school buses. Transfronterizos stand for hours in a human chain of 16,000 at the world’s busiest international land border. These students migrate between two cultures, two languages and two nations every day, straining the resources of public school districts and sparking debate among educators and sociologists over whether it is in American interests that they be taught in the United States. Although some Mexican families pay the steep tuition required of out-of-district students, most do not, and many that pay taxes out of their paychecks do not pay the property taxes that support public services.((Brown, Patricia Leigh. Young U.S. Citizens in Mexico Up Early to Learn in U.S. New York Times. Web))
These Students fly under the radar in some school districts, while other districts assign truancy officers to find who they are. They live with the anxiety of potentially having to lie about their residency and the very real possibility that the prize they are after — a decent education — will be taken from them.((Brown, Patricia Leigh.))
