U.S. border town split on Mexican school kids
Tagged: border, family, HIV, Mexico, parentsThe phenomenon cuts right to the heart of a heated debate in the United States about immigrants’ access to benefits, becoming a political hot potato in the midterm elections, but welcomed by parents in poor Mexican towns south of the border.
“Each morning Antonio packs his school bag, hurries up his little sister and clambers into the family car for the daily run to school in this town in southern Arizona.
But for the eighth grader, like hundreds of other youngsters, the journey starts not in the dusty border community of Douglas, but south of the line in Agua Prieta in Sonora state in northern Mexico.”
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October 16th, 2006
Fuente Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish
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