And all he can do is throw around insults.
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Quote from a person who posted an earlier message here: The schools have no choice when it comes to providing K-12 education. SCOTUS made that mandatory with Plyler vs Doe in 1982. Here in Fairfax County, Virginia we pay $104 million a year for ESOL instruction for 31,000 students.
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My post: That 1982 Supreme Court ruling is the reason we need Constitutional amendments like the following to try to control illegal immigration:
1. "School attendance: Only citizens, legal residents, those with special student visas can attend elementary, high school, and colleges in the United States."
2. "One parent must be a citizen before a newborn child is given automatic citizenship."
3. Felony: We must finally get very serious and declare that crossing the border illegally is a felony. It sounds mean to call it a felony, but we must do it, if we will ever have any chance of controlling our borders. Having the same illegals crossing our borders over and over is wrong,wrong, and wrong.
Illegal immigrant parents come to the United States for the wonderful benefits that their children can receive, like a quality education and great health care. Can you blame them for making the dangerous, long trip with their young children, or sending their children by themselves with the hope that the United States will automatically let them stay?
I don't understand how a child can illegally cross the southern border one day and automatically be eligible to enroll in public school the next day. That is wrong.
Read Plyler v. Doe.
The Supremes didn’t make public education mandatory.
What they did was prevent Texas from acting unilaterally. The heart of Plyler is SCOTUS’ contention that the Constitution makes immigration a federal issue. Plyler specifically states that if Congress acted to deny access to public schools, then SCOTUS would respect that decision.
In fact, SCOTUS went out of its way to assert in Plyler that neither Texas nor SCOTUS should even be a player here. SCOTUS said Plyler was decided only in lieu of Congressional action.
We don’t need an amendment. We need a Congress with a backbone.