Thousands of students cross the boundaries from Mexico to us to the school. Some have now been set for graduation.

For most high school students, attributed duties or gym clothes may require a text to a parent. In the case of Jose M. Vazukez, a forgotten element in particular – his birth certificate – does not mean that there is no school on that day.

Vazquez, 24, is now chief at San Diego State University Impierial Valley, the US Mexican Borders to California to attend the school for nine years. On May 12, it will graduate during a call in Mexico, Mexico. His mother attends the ceremony, which his kidney set together, which is unable to do because she cannot obtain a visa to enter the United States.

Vazuziz is one of Tens of thousands Among the crossing students, some of whom are children who are kind to kindergarten, who cross the border from Mexico to California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to continue education in the United States.

Students across the border have documents that allow them to cross to the United States for school, such as a passport, birth certificate or naturalization, but living in Mexico is often more effective and allowed to stay with their families. Students who cross the border during middle and high school often use an American title, sometimes for a friend or family member, to avoid scrutiny from the educational area.

Laura Decusia, a doctoral candidate at Arizona State University, who is looking at border students, said that some students are American citizens who lived in Mexico the majority of their lives, while others return to Mexico after living in America for economic reasons or family reunification, said Laura Decusia, a doctoral candidate at Arizona State University, who is looking at border students.

“It is like a circular deportation,” Decusia told CBS News.

The first in his family, who graduated from the College of Graduate Studies, was reflected in Vazukez on an educational journey – and many others -.

Transfer the school across the border

After deporting his father from the United States in 2006, Vasquiz – who was born in Arizona – moved to Mexico, when the border began crossing a few years later to pick up a high school in Centro, California.

Although he is an American citizen, for Vazukez, like many borders – Or across the border– The students, who live in Mexico with his family, said because it is “part of my culture, to me, to the extent that I think it will be difficult for me if I have to leave it,” noting that he is grateful to study in the United States.

During high school, Vazquiz woke up at 4:30 am local time, waiting on the border for about two hours, and arrived at the school before his first studies at 8 am in 2019, he joined the Imperial Valley College, a community college 15 miles from Mexicali, before landing at Saint -Diego government imperial university.

The story of Vazquez reflects the story of Diana Lara Zamora, 21, who is now great at Arizona State University, which crossed the United States from eighth to high school.

“I was crossing three different states: Baja California, Sonora and Arizona every day,” said Lara Zamora.

She started joining school in the United States in 14 years, living with a family friend in San Lewis, Arizona, sometimes. A typical school day, Lara Zamora, started at about four in the morning local time.

Her mother was driving for 30 minutes to the border to drop her and her younger sister, where they were waiting for other students before walking 25 minutes or taking a taxi to the PPEP TEC high school in San Lewis. During the winter season, when seasonal farms cross the Arizona state, waiting at the border may reach two hours.

“They freeze,” she said. “I remember my red nose.”

Lara Zamura said that when Lara Zamora became a student at Arizona State University in 2020, she got housing on the campus, a useful experience that allowed her “to get to know people from all over the world.”

Javier Milara, 21, who will graduate alongside Vasquez in Mexico, crosses the border to attend the school in California since he was 11 years old.

“You have to face a lot of challenges,” he said. “You have to face a lot of fear, and a lot of retreat from some people.”

Milara said that even the college will not participate with his friends that he is across the border daily out of concern that the educational zone may discover it.

“I lived with fear because some people got out of school,” he said, noting that he was something that he saw happening for several classmates, including a friend.

Lara Zamura CBS News said that she “does not feel like Transborder means the same limits.”

“For me, it comes to the presence of two cultures in yourself.”

For students across the border, the benefits of living in Mexico regularly mean facing the challenges of crossing borders: long waiting times, tense interactions with customs agents, American border protection and reaction from community members – all against the background of immigration discussion at the country level at the border. This week, CBS News I mentioned These illegal crossings fell along the southern American border by more than 40 % this year to 129,000 crossings in April, and the challenge of historical trends. Although students across the border crossed the United States legally, the act of crossing the border makes them vulnerable to scrutiny.

Auditing, fear, then graduation

Another source of uncomfortable for Milara was his interaction with customs officers and border protection.

“I feel that we have this affected fear, this constant fear, such as flying or fighting,” said Milara that he often sent him to secondary inspection, which allows officers to conduct an additional interrogation.

Lara Zamora said, she noticed that her male friends are often pulled to secondary inspection, that she was keen on her interactions with customs officers. Vazukez said he felt that CBP staff sought to intimidate – a fixed issue that distorted his transportation. “They think you are a criminal,” he said.

CBS News reached customs agents and US border protection for comment, but she did not receive a response before publishing.

Some students are placed under a microscope by the residents of the educational area. For Lara Zamora, the frustration of members of society who felt that their taxes benefited from non -residents, which led to a transfer to a different secondary school.

“I felt really unfair because it was not my fault,” said Lara Zamora. “My parents do not want to be illegal immigrants here.”

Lara Zamura, Vazuzuz and Mellara graduated this month. Lara Zamora, plans to register at the College of Graduate Studies. Vazquez takes a gap year to follow his passion for performance as a pulling queen. He said that Milara plans to follow a master’s degree in education, one day, he achieves a doctorate and “a dream without barriers.”

The mother of Vasquus, who attended his clouds, will have the opportunity to see him in a different stage in the coming days in calling for graduation from SDSU in Mexicali. Since she was unable to cross the border to attend high school, Vazquism said that her presence at the ceremony in Mexico is important – especially given that the first thing in his family graduated.

Lara Zamora, also a first -generation student, says that the realization of millions of other students has faced similar challenges that inspire her to help students like herself.

“The first generation means that you are the first, but we hope it is not another,” she said.