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...district they form 59% of the total, up from just a fifth in 1978. Of the school's 3,000 pupils, nearly half are enrolled in bilingual or English-as-a-second-language classes. "This is very much a port-of-entry school," says Bilingual-ESL Program coordinator Pat Reynosa. That means, says Reynosa, that in addition to having limited or nonexistent English, many of the students must cope with the pressures of grinding poverty (a median family income of $17,000; 18% on welfare) and the anomie common to refugees. And since Hispanics are America's fastest-growing ethnic...
...leads to tensions between lawmen on opposite sides of the border. U.S. officials say rogue Mexican cops sometimes provide armed escorts for truckloads of dope moving north to the States. Mexican police have accused Starr's sheriff, Eugenio Falcon Jr., of invading a hospital south of the border in Reynosa and murdering a drug runner who was a suspect in a Starr County multiple killing. "The charges are ridiculous," insists Falcon...
...civilian were shot dead trying to stop a tanker truck loaded with marijuana from going through a Customs post near San Fernando, Mexico, about 90 miles from the Texas border at Brownsville. The cargo and three suspects were finally seized 25 miles south of the border city of Reynosa, Mexico, but the original drivers had escaped. In his press conference last week, Ambassador Gavin quoted Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, who called the drug crisis "a cancer" on both countries. Said Gavin: "We are in a war, and we cannot accept that Enrique Camarena died in vain...
...trade relationship that heavily favors the U.S. In fact, he preceded his visit with a generous Mexican offer to the U.S. PEMEX, the national oil company, has begun shipping 2.4 billion cu. ft. of natural gas to the fuel-starved U.S. through pipeline connections at Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa and Matamoros; the gas will have a price tag of more than $5 million. And with Florida's vegetable crops devastated by the winter weather, Mexico is shipping tomatoes in quantity to the U.S. from vast agribusiness farms below the border
...distributes these goods to the Mexican migrant workers who live in brutalizing squalor on both sides of the Rio Grande. But that only begins his chores. After persistent dunning, drug companies have shipped tons of vitamins and medicines to Harlingen, and Ferree dispenses them in the Mexican towns of Reynosa and Matamoros, where he has established makeshift clinics in abandoned shacks. He ministers to minor ailments himself; with the help of admiring merchants on both sides of the border, he has arranged more than 200 harelip and cleft-palate operations for children he has found. One of his discoveries...