{"id":1259,"date":"2007-12-30T18:45:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T22:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2007-12-30T18:45:59","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T22:45:59","slug":"us-school-aims-to-keep-out-mexican-childrenuh-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/30\/us-school-aims-to-keep-out-mexican-childrenuh-oh\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. School aims to keep out Mexican children&#8230;Uh &#8211; oh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>School Aims to Catch Students from Mexico<\/strong><br \/>\nDecember 29th, 2007 @ 1:13pm<br \/>\nby Associated Press<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CALEXICO, Calif. (AP) _ Children are more apt to shield their faces than to smile when Daniel Santillan points his camera. <\/p>\n<p>Santillan&#8217;s photos aren&#8217;t for any picture album or yearbook _ they help prove that Mexicans are illegally attending public schools in this California border community. <\/p>\n<p>With too many students and too few classrooms, Calexico school officials took the unusual step of hiring someone to photograph children and document the offenders. <\/p>\n<p>Santillan snaps pictures at the city&#8217;s downtown border crossing and shares the images with school principals, who use them as evidence to kick out those living in Mexico. <\/p>\n<p>Since he started the job two years ago, the number of students in the Calexico school system has fallen by 5 percent, from 9,600 to 9,100, while the city&#8217;s population grew about 3 percent. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The community asked us to do this, and we responded,&#8221; said board President Enrique Alvarado of the Calexico Unified School District. &#8220;Once it starts to affect you personally, when your daughter gets bumped to another school, then our residents start complaining.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Every day along the 1,952-mile border, children from Mexico cross into the United States and attend public schools. No one keeps statistics on how many children make the trek. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/ktar.com\/?nid=6&#038;sid=687224\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School Aims to Catch Students from Mexico December 29th, 2007 @ 1:13pm by Associated Press CALEXICO, Calif. (AP) _ Children are more apt to shield their faces than to smile when Daniel Santillan points his camera. Santillan&#8217;s photos aren&#8217;t for any picture album or yearbook _ they help prove that Mexicans are illegally attending public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}