Actually, Tyler Texas is where the disaster really got started.
You voted in the 1970s to exclude illegal aliens from your school on the very good theory that illegal aliens - whatever their age - have no claim on taxpayer services...like public schools.
The Supreme Court threw that law out in 1982, in a decision called Plyler v. Doe. Because of Plyler, entire states are now going bankrupt, the schools in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas are predominantly Mexican (the LAUSD is 85% "hispanic", after being 85% Not Hispanic for the previous 100 years), and in my hometown of Tucson, the little darlings are engaging in terror tactics to try to force us to pay to teach them about their Stolen Land and the non-existent Aztec history of the Southwest.
So where do you then get off talking about "we voted on it, it's a law"? Your own laws were gutted by a Supreme Court decision that is simply wrong, and Un-Constitutional.
Your argument is that the will of the people only goes one direction - OK if it benefits the citizens of Mexico, not OK if it discriminates against them as non-citizens?
Standard rap of the Left since the 1890s.
In fact, your laws now discriminate against Citizens of the United States in favor of illegal aliens, which is utterly un-Constitutional and an affront to Americans. The strained reasoning that you employ to attempt to rationalize it is just that.
The difference is that people can make distinctions between two situations. The will of the people is to block illegal aliens, control our borders and to not be burdened with support of the families of illegal aliens.
That first attempt - to not support illegal aliens with our social services and education dollars - failed because of court rulings and regulations.
HB 1403, is supported by the voters, I hope because of realism and compassion, an attempt to encourage good character and education rather than gangs and prison. We would also like to convert the resistance to assimilation and identification with Mexico.
It’s a very narrow accommodation made to the young people that the Feds and Courts would not allow us to identify and deport.