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Re-learning Spanish, and Super-Injunctions

BY PATRICK COX 

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Thousands of kids from the United States are enrolling in Mexican schools. The reason: their Mexican parents are moving back from the United States. There are many reasons for this. Among them: deportation, fear of deportation, the poor economy in the U.S. Some of the children were born in Mexico, some in the United States. But now they are in Mexico after years of English-language education, they are struggling to learn or re-learn Spanish. We have a report from the border city of Nogales, Mexico.

The language of the border and immigration has long been politicized. Whether you call someone who has jumped the border an illegal alien or undocumented worker depends on your politics. Neither term works for children whose families sneak them across the border. We have a report on these expressions, and many more from Michel Marizco of the Fronteras desk, run by several public radio stations based in the US South West.

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