Daniel Santillan is a residency enforcer for the Calexico school district. His job is to make sure that students in the California school district actually live in the US, not Mexico. “When he’s not tracking students on weekday mornings at the border crossing, he visits local homes to make sure children live where their parents say they do,” reports the Christian Science Monitor.
“Santillan isn’t thrilled about busting youngsters for living south of the border, but he accepts his job. ‘The bottom line is that these kids are taking up room,’ he says. “Some schools are now doing more to enforce residency requirements under pressure from politicians and activists concerned about wasted taxpayer money, reports the paper, which notes it’s impossible to know how many Mexican students cross the border daily to attend school in the US, sent by parents who think they’ll get a better education. Still, border communities have fretted over their presence for more than a decade. Calexico’s schools, however, have gone further than others by sending Santillan to photograph students at the border and requiring parents to provide proof of residency twice a year.
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