Posted on 03/14/2025 10:04:33 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
The proposal, introduced by House Majority Leader William Lamberth and state Senator Bo Watson, would give local school districts the authority to decide whether to admit non-citizens.
If passed, school districts can “enroll, or refuse to enroll, a student who is unlawfully present in the United States.”
The bill was approved by the House K-12 subcommittee with a 5-3 vote. One Republican, Representative Mark White of Memphis, joined the two Democrats opposing the legislation.
Like many other states, Tennessee’s schools have been overwhelmed by foreign nationals eating up district budgets and diverting resources from American citizens.
Lamberth has said that the federal government’s failure to secure the border has flooded Tennessee with approximately 120,000 illegal migrants, including 10,000 students enrolled in public schools.
As the bill was debated, Democrat protesters chanted slogans including “Education for all,” “Shame on you,” and “Shut it down.” They argued that having uneducated migrants running around the state would lead to an increase in crime and poverty.
During a 5-minute recess, protesters flooded the House hearing room after the K-12 Subcommittee voted in favor of HB793. @FOXNashville pic.twitter.com/VMVNEhc99x
— Madeleine Nolan (@MaddieNolanTV) March 11, 2025
NOW: “IF THEY DON’T DROP IT, SHUT IT DOWN!”
The halls of the TN leg full of protestors after @WilliamLamberth & @SenBoWatson’s cruel bill to block undocumented kids from going to school passes house sub 5-3
They want it to overturn Plyler at SCOTUS
(H/t @OdessaKellyTN) pic.twitter.com/h2C7WoGkaL
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) March 11, 2025
Tennessee GOP lawmakers flee protesters at a House subcommittee hearing after most Republicans voted to advance HB 793, a bill allowing schools to refuse to enroll undocumented migrant children.
The official House feed cut the mics as the subcommittee went into immediate recess. pic.twitter.com/4yiPmHZhQw
— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) March 11, 2025
Supporters of the bill countered that illegal aliens cannot legally work in the state anyway.
A companion measure in the Tennessee Senate would require public schools to verify students’ immigration status and be permitted to charge tuition fees to non-citizens.
for the children.
For those interested here is some past legalities on it.
Plyler v. Doe
“Revisions to education laws in Texas in 1975 withheld state funds for educating children who had not been legally admitted to the United States and authorized local school districts to deny enrollment to such students. A 5–4 majority of the Supreme Court found the policy to violate the Fourteenth Amendment, as illegal immigrant children are people “in any ordinary sense of the term” and therefore had protection from discrimination unless a substantial state interest could be shown to justify it.”
“In short, the most prominent takeaways from this case were that the Court reasoned that unauthorized immigrants and their children, although not citizens of the United States or Texas, are people “in any ordinary sense of the term” and, therefore, are afforded Fourteenth Amendment protections. Since the state law severely disadvantaged the children of illegal aliens by denying them the right to an education, and because Texas could not prove that the regulation was needed to serve a “compelling state interest,” the Court struck down the law.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plyler_v._Doe#:~:text=Since%20the%20state%20law%20severely,Court%20struck%20down%20the%20law.
I know of one school district that is teaching to 17 different languages. Unbelievable.
>> During a 5-minute recess, protesters flooded the House hearing room after the K-12 Subcommittee voted in favor of HB793.
Every time those on the left do this stuff, they should be immediately dragged out to the street by their hair and have the crap beat out of them. That isn’t lawful protest, it’s insurrection!
These illegal aliens have to go home!
“unless a substantial state interest could be shown to justify it”
But a substantial state interest CAN EASILY be shown to justify it!
We’re freaking BROKE from unrestrained illegal immigration.
“unless a substantial state interest could be shown to justify it”
But a substantial state interest CAN EASILY be shown to justify it!
We’re freaking BROKE from unrestrained illegal immigration.
How about the spread of third world disease we once had eradicated in the use.
How about the use of tax dollars now longer available because of the excesses burden of so many illegal students
How about the extreme extra sources required for so many children who cannot speak English as a first language, the official language of the US.
A friend who is a teacher told me years ago that she was only to give an illegal student nothing lower than a “C”.
“They argued that having uneducated migrants running around the state would lead to an increase in crime and poverty.”
Not if you deport them.
I see the left have done a deep dive into why they lost the election, and have mended their ways in response to their loss /s
And they wonder why the US is behind other countries in educational efficacy.
They have to waste too much time with these aliens, the schools are too crowded and they have to dumb down studies so they can shove them through.
"They argued that having uneducated migrants running around the state would lead to an increase in crime and poverty."
If cut off the services and use the IRS to go after employers, the entire illegal issue will vaporize.
Well, the test scores will go up.
If you are here illegally then you can’t
Go to school here. It’s pretty black and white. How can you justify, protesting this
Unless your just a stupid American hating Democrat?
Call ICE, turn them in. Once the familie have been deported there will be no more problems.
The flak is getting heavy; our people must be over the target.
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