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Martin Torres
Head Consul, Salt Lake City Consulate of Mexico
I would like to make a comment, too. On one hand, these young kids that achieve,
they have overcome all odds. Those are the very best that we have and
you are taking them and you are keeping them and we lose them. In Mexico,
education is totally free. You can go from elementary school to a PhD
for free. President Sergio, he never paid a penny and he was a PhD from
Yale. How did he do it? Because he was good student, he excelled, he came
here to the United State and got a scholarship, he got a Masters and a
PhD and he never paid a penny. The argument that sometimes is raised that
people come here to get a free education is totally false. They come here
because they are following their parents and they have no other choice.
And they are faced here with the greatest of challenges. They had to beat
all those challenges, they had to catch up with their classmates and when
you see people like Judge Gutierrez, you are talking about the very best.
You see someone like [Rose Jacobo], they are the very best. I think that
we both win, that's why as part of the duties that we have here in this
country as consulate, is to always try to do a lot in education. We also
want to contribute to those great efforts that are done here to educate
those kids because we consider them ours but they are also yours, so we
share them. What I wanted to point out here is, first: they could have
an easy life as far as education is concerned in their country. When they
come here, they have to face many different challenges, and when they
overcome those challenges, you are talking about the best of the crop
and I believe that the one that is absolutely winning is this country
by keeping and educating these kids. And we also have to recognize that
there are very remarkable individuals that work in education, we just
heard from one of them, we just saw a recording of another one of them
that really do a remarkable job that I would even call an apostolic job
in educating, in reaching out to those kids. So I was deeply, deeply touched
by the piece, but I think it is important to point out that the fact that
they come here and excel is a guaranteed success for anyone that is contributing
to their education and it is for the benefit of the community here.
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