Oh What a Tangled Web ........

In the wake of the passage of SB 1070 in Arizona and the furor it generated in some quarters, it is interesting to note that voters in the state approve of the measure by a 70 to 30% margin and across the country the approval rate is pretty much the same.

Still the Obama regime continues to hammer at it for reasons that are all too easy to discern. Try these on for size.

For a start, it highlights the regime’s failure to secure this nation’s borders and it also makes it even more unlikely that Obama can persuade Congress to pass “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” in the near future.

But just when you think you’ve heard it all something always crops up to confound the belief.

Arizona has enough to contend with in terms of Mexico-generated illegal immigration into this country with the attendant strain on public resources and money but now we find out that we have to confront homegrown "people smuggling" as well.

Just yesterday, Arizona State School Superintendent Tom Horne said that children from the country of Mexico have been crossing the border and have been attending Ajo, Arizona schools for quite some time.

Mexican children have been crossing the border at the Lukeville Port of Entry, and have been boarding buses to take them to school, and Horne has the video to prove it. Not only has this been going on under the nose of the top educator in Arizona, but the Superintendent of Pima County Public schools Linda Arzoumanian knew about it and has let it continue.

On Wednesday, Horne came to Tucson and in a press conference showed the video. He also called on the Pima County Superintendent to account for her lack of oversight.

It is an ever-present complaint from every school district in the country it seems that they have too many kids and not enough money to go round. Well, now we see that is plainly false as this school district was eager to collect the $6000 per student per year. And this per capita endowment has been going on for quite a while and the total runs well into 7 figures.

Your tax dollars at work!

Naturally the State wants its money back and I'm willing to bet the School District won't have it. So then, the state's only recourse would be to deduct the amount from future allocations which would hurt the Arizona students who remain in the system.

Something about the "Law of Unintended Consequences" springs to mind.

Superintendent Horne and the Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard also want legislators to close a loophole through which state money has been going to a Douglas public charter school. Videotape also showed students who live in Agua Prieta, Mexico being driven to the Omega Alpha Academy charter school across the border in Douglas, AZ., despite denials by the school's executive director, Jose Frisby.

With a state wide budget deficit of $1.6 billion, and $141 million cut from public education every dollar counts. "Arizona tax payers can no longer support the cost of educating their own children as well as those from Mexico”, Horne said.

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