Court Blocks Alabama Student Citizenship Checks

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[rocksandbroncs]

A federal appeals court has ruled that part of Alabama's tough immigration law that ordered public schools to check the citizenship status of new students is unconstitutional. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the provision wrongly singles out children who are in the country illegally. Alabama was the only state that passed such a requirement. The 11th Circuit says a lower court should have blocked that part of the law. The court separately says Alabama police can continue checking immigration documents for people they stop. Both private groups and the Obama administration filed lawsuits to block the law considered the toughest in the country. The 11th Circuit was the first appeals court to consider the schools provision.

[Jumper]

Let me restate that, residents of the state should get in-state tuition; out-of-state “state” residents the higher rate, and if not a “state” resident of one of the 50 states possibly another rate. ,p>Having worked for the US Department of State, it seems only someone with a valid passport and visa or proof of state residency should receive US student tuition rates; we should charge foreigners twice the out-of-state rate:)

[Yulee]

“The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the provision wrongly singles out children who are in the country illegally.”

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This is an example of one hand not knowing what the other is doing. Schools are required by the federal government to report annually the number of students who have been in the US less than two years.

The schools are required to provide special services to students, whose native language is not English. They are required to provide special services for migrant students.

It really gets stupid, when a school is forbidden to ask if a student is an illegal alien, yet wants to know the number of aliens in the school. I know that some schools look at birth places, where and when the student originally enter school, and try to determine the number that way.

The data collected for the federal government is highly inaccurate. Plain old GIGO (Garbage in, Garbage out).

[Captain Compassion]

So..... Traffic stops are unconstitutional because they have undue impact on drunks?

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[imardmd1]

Yet everytime on the local news they show some leach with some sob story, and a half dozen anchor babies saying that “they came here to *sniff sniff* have a better life”.

You make an important point, here, once more. Should the child born on US soil of an alien mother, be granted US citizenship?

This brings up a related problem when the babe is also the issue of a US man not lawfully wedded to the alien mother.

Do not other countries have policies regarding this? Suppose a couple, born-USA citizens, have a child while travelling in France. Is that child a citizen of France or the US? Is France liable for that child's welfare henceforth? I wouldn't think so, but would only extend the protection offered a tourist or someone operating under a business visa --

Is it not up to the parent/mother to get the child back into and under the protection of the rule of its own 'native' land?

[2CAVTrooper]

“You make an important point, here, once more. Should the child born on US soil of an alien mother, be granted US citizenship?”

No, that child should not be a citizen.

“This brings up a related problem when the babe is also the issue of a US man not lawfully wedded to the alien mother.”

In a case like that, the child can have it one of three ways, U.S. citizen at the request of the father, foreign citizenship at the request of the mother, or dual citizenship. More than likely dual citizenship would be offered.

“Do not other countries have policies regarding this? Suppose a couple, born-USA citizens, have a child while travelling in France. Is that child a citizen of France or the US? Is France liable for that child’s welfare henceforth? I wouldn’t think so, but would only extend the protection offered a tourist or someone operating under a business visa —”

My wife was born in Germany while her father was stationed there, and she’s not a German citizen. The German government didn’t spend a single Pfennig on her.

IMO, hospitals should be required to ask where these illegals are from, so that the appropriate embassy or consulate can be billed for the healthcare of their citizens.