Does it not strike you as a little peculiar that the very same Congress/federal government that mandated that ALL states provide a “free” K-12 education for ALL children, legal or not, then claims that if a state decides for its own purposes that it will extend a tuition break to children who meet certain criteria in the state, that’s suddenly acting illegally or improperly? Who is it that is tacitly supporting illegals? Who is trying to have it both ways?
The Congress, i.e., the federal government, is the body that MANDATED each and every states, and every jurisdiction within each of the states, to provide the “free” K-12 education. We won’t go into medical care, housing, etc. By Congress’s imposing this unfunded mandate on each and every state, who’s subverting the Constitution? Who is giving tacit support to illegals?
Who among us even knows how our own Congressman voted on that mandate? We might easily assume that nothing passes Congress with only votes of the TX delegation. So, what other states’ representatives encouraged this tacit support of illegals?
It costs a lot more to educate studentw to whom English is not their native language, and who logically do not have the support at home to supplement the basic ‘free’ K-12 US education. You might check the budget of your local jurisdiction’s schools to see just how much that Congressional/federal mandate is costing you. By the time TX or any other state or jurisdiction within the respective states has provided the Congressionally/federally mandated “free” K-12 education to children of illegals, that state/local jurisdiction has made an enormous investment in that student, thanks to an unfunded Congressional/federal mandate. But let’s not think about that because it doesn’t serve our present agenda now, does it?
Continue with your name calling. It speaks more to your character than to mine.
It was the US Supreme Court that did that, in Plyler v. Doe.
Not to say that Congress isn't in agreement with SCOTUS in this matter, just saying that it wasn't Congress that handed down the "everybody in the country (legal or illegal presence makes no difference) is entitled to public K-12 education" ruling.