TheBorderChronicle

Two years ago, the evening program at Prepa 2 in Tapachula, Chiapas, had just 60 students. Then two siblings from Nigeria walked in and asked if they could enroll.

Today, about 150 students attend, and roughly 80 percent are immigrants. Many arrived in Mexico hoping to keep moving north, but with the right to seek asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border virtually eliminated, thousands of families are now stuck in Tapachula. For their kids, a seat in a classroom has become a lifeline.
Reporter Liliana Frankel spent time at the school and met the principal, teachers, and students. One staffer helps kids enroll with nothing but the burned scraps of their birth certificates. The principal has an ambitious goal for the school’s future.

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