I think they're gonna walk like an adventure because you never know what's gonna happen it's
something that I learned to embrace something that could make me grow as a person the wall is a waste
of money really you could use the money on other important issues people are desperate for better
opportunities a wall isn't gonna stop them this American school is right next to the border wall
it might be in the US but 85% of the students live in Mexico and they make the long difficult
journey to cross the border every day just to get an American education it's for 52 right
now it's perfect Atul it is somewhere around 6 a.m. I usually wake up at 4:30 it's by 7 a.m.
in the morning it's 5 o'clock in the morning and I'm outside the port of entry between the
Mexico and the u.s. sighs I've just got a text from Salt one of the girls I'm meeting from the
school she's on her way and she's been going for approximately an hour already it takes them about
three hours each morning just to cross the border and come to school they must be shattered already
now 7 o'clock in the morning and the students have told me they just come in through I thought
oh so like many other students has a student visa that allows her to study in America even though
she lives in Mexico so what do you think about making this journey every day like you like it
I hate it I like my school they they teach me well I think my English is better than if I had
studied in Mexico okay so since President Trump has got in here now having second inspection so
you get inspected once you have it before Trump was elected but I was weightless it
used to be like once every three four or five months now I've gotten it a lot in this one
Sall isn't the only one 85% of the students here come across the border each day why do you guys
make the journey and come to a school in the u.s. you can learn like more languages and explore by
yourself and never there a knife and in the States there is you know there's so many opportunities
given to you it's just whether you take them what is that journey like for you tell me a bit
about it there's a lot of that stuff crossing the border every day and even though they know we have
we come from a school they try to check because every day so how long can it take like what's the
most amount of time it can take you can depending on the officer you can get up to two three hours
or one hour really in secondary church makes it very easy for schools in terms recently there was
this incident that the officers had to come in from outside and they came out with shields and
stuff and they're pushing all everyone back it was kind of something big that I've never seen
they were hitting us with the shields like pushing us back and it was like a bad experience president
Trump wants to build more wall and he wants to make border security stricter I think border
security is a must but I don't at least to me I don't believe all walls gonna fix anything right
now we have like the wire things that cut you and they still get this thing over the walls not gonna
see the holes not stopping yeah they're gonna find it we're gonna find a way so do you guys ever feel
nervous about losing your visas maybe no nada to us there were American citizens both parents
are I'm Mexican say thank you I have to get like two passports and the century cards so I can go
through if I cross like a mango cuz mangoes you they could take my visa if I forget my passport
when I'm crossing they could cancel my visa for like three months there's a lot of things there's
a lot of reasons why they could take your visa and you kind of live in fear of them the headteacher
is from Mexico himself and he hopes that getting an education in the US will benefit both sides of
the wall we're just coming to America it's not the only answer the only solution I think that
a lot of times we we look at America's the savior of world and fail to recognize that there's a lot
of issues and problems just on the other side of that fence and and I think that part of what we're
trying to instill in our students is that you know we're not trying to give them a new identity which
simply saying look whether you pursue your life here in the future will prepare you for that and
you can succeed here but if you want to go back home hopefully what you learn here you can still
take back with you and and and make changes over there and still have a wonderful beautiful life
so America is the land of more opportunities think