Sound advice.
It appears this letter writer did just that. In fact, based on what is written, he is saying that Congress is powerless to act with respect to the public education aspect, because the Supreme Court has extended the Constitutional equal protection doctrine to illegal aliens to include the right to the privileges afforded citizens. Thus, on the distinct issue of a right to free public education, there are only two paths. 1) overturning the ruling of Plyler or 2) a Constitutional Amendment. Obviously, overturning the ruling is far easier.
With respect to the children born here to illegal aliens, that is a different issue. My personal belief is that there is no Constitutional basis, nor is there any common law support for rewarding criminal behavior with automatic citizenship. Indeed, as drafted, the provision arguably can only apply to U.S. Citizens.
Of course, we can fill a whole book, let alone another thread with that different debate. The real question here is, how does a small town in any state prevent illegal aliens (children who are here illegally) from stealing public resources? According to the Supreme Court, states are powerless? How can that possibly be right?
Let me be the first in a long time to say "I don't know."
My objection was to labeling some of the hardest-working people on the planet "wetbacks". The legal machinations required to make life miserable for people here illegaly now are not my expertise at all, but I'm generally in favor of them. There is a strategy in the works to require all Americans to prove citizenship to work, with heavy fines on companies that employ illegals. Proponents claim it is not a national ID, but a database of citizens available to employers.
The simple problem with this strategy is that we already have thousands of laws that no one has the guts to enforce. Long answer just to admit ignorance, huh?