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Second, you are assuming that just because having some educated people is good, having more education must necessarily be better.

I'm saying having a significant uneducated population is unquestionably bad.

There are school districts in Texas where up to 40% of the students are here illegally. That is a tremendous, disproportionate burden to put on the taxpayers of that district.

Why should it be disproportionate? The property tax collector doesn't care if you're illegal or not - he collects the taxes.

Now if there's a large population of uneducated people with no job prospects the quality of life in the district is going to go downhill, as will the property values. Everyone loses.

there is no evidence that spending $50k to educate an illegal immigrant will make them a better unskilled/low-skilled/unemployed worker.

I think there's plenty of evidence people get better jobs when they're educated. It may even allow them to get a more skilled job, make some money and pay more taxes.

It will be disproportionate because the large number of illegals likely are occupying very low rent housing, and are paying (indirectly through the landlord) much less in property taxes than are the other residents. Therefore, the other taxpayers will need to be paying much more in taxes to pay for the additional schooling required.

I think there's plenty of evidence people get better jobs when they're educated. It may even allow them to get a more skilled job, make some money and pay more taxes.

But is that a job that would otherwise go unfilled if that person didn't take it, or are they simply taking a job opportunity that might have otherwise gone to a citizen or legal immigrant? Because if it is the latter, then all you are doing is shuffling wealth rather than creating it.

The all too common scenario is that the illegal is taking the job at a lower wage rate that the employer otherwise would have to pay. That is great for the owners and higher management of business who benefit from, but amounts to wage depression for those citizens and legal immigrants who are otherwise competing for those jobs.

In any case, these are all worthy policy discussions that voters should be having rather than having had it taken out of their hands by an activist Supreme Court.