This Was A Good Idea

From the El Paso Sun Times:
Four years ago, an unlikely group of men unofficially joined the retinue of U.S. Border Patrol agents and customs inspectors that carefully watched thousands of cars and pedestrians stream across the Bridge of the Americas during the morning rush hour.
They did not belong to any of the law enforcement agencies tasked with screening traffic at the port, but instead carried on with their peculiar surveillance effort from the Chamizal National Memorial just steps away from the bridge. 
Two El Paso Independent School District administrators and several truant officers watched and snapped pictures that morning, trying to identify students who were suspected of living outside of their schools' boundaries. The two administrators then continued on for two more days. The order to find such students came from the highest rungs of leadership at the city's largest school district, which was grappling with consistently low-performing campuses.
Former Pupil Services Director Mark Mendoza said former Superintendent Lorenzo García and former Associate Superintendent of Priority Schools Damon Murphy ordered him to take his assistant director and a team of truant officers to photograph students who were crossing over from Juárez in hopes of identifying those who did not belong at South Side campuses, primarily Bowie and Jefferson high schools.  http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_21554529/episd-monitored-bridges?source=rss_viewed
There is nothing wrong to make sure that residents of Mexico do not come to the U.S. for schooling during the day and then go back at night.
It's bad enough we have to educate illegals without getting reimbursed by the Federal government or better yet, the Mexican or any other country that has families here illegally.
But this really pushes it that border cities have to be forced to educate students who currently live in Mexico and then expect to get educated in U.S. schools.
But not everybody sees it that way: But David Hinojosa, Southwest regional counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said any action that involves taking pictures of students crossing the bridge with the intent of saying they are not district residents could bring "very grave problems."
"Simply taking pictures of kids under the age of 18 without the parent's consent might itself be an illegal activity, especially where you're under the authority of a school district," Hinojosa said. "Secondly, if they even went beyond that and tried to use those mere pictures in disenrolling children or concluding that those children should no longer be allowed to attend the schools, then that would be very problematic."....Hinojosa, the MALDEF lawyer, said border cities should be considered international cities. He said some students who live in the district may spend the night with their grandparents in Juárez, just as other children who attend Bowie may spend the night with the grandparents in West El Paso.