[195] In a speech on November 1, 1980, Carter stated his administration had extended Head Start to migrant children and was "working hard right now with Senator Bentsen and with Kika de la Garza to make as much as $45 million available in federal money in the border districts to help with the increase in school construction for the number of Mexican school children who reside here legally".[196]

Foreign policy
Main article: Foreign policy of the Jimmy Carter administration
Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter and Menachem Begin meet at Camp David on September 6, 1978.
Israel and Egypt
Carter standing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, during his 1979 visit
Main articles: Presidency of Jimmy Carter § Camp David Accords, and Camp David Accords
From the onset of his presidency, Carter attempted to mediate the Arab–Israeli conflict.[197] After a failed attempt to seek a comprehensive settlement between the two nations in 1977 (through reconvening the 1973 Geneva conference,[198] Carter invited the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin to the presidential lodge Camp David in September 1978, in hopes of creating a definitive peace. 