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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says 1982 ruling on immigrant education wrong
Dallas Morning News ^ | 09 March 2015 11:27 PM | TODD J. GILLMAN

Posted on 03/10/2015 7:43:09 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz said Monday that the Supreme Court probably made the wrong decision in 1982 when it ruled that public schools must provide free education to children in the country illegally.

“There’s a strong argument to say that it was [a mistake],” Cruz told a conservative radio host in Des Moines during a campaign visit to Iowa.

WHO-AM host Jan Mickelson, an immigration hard-liner, peppered Cruz with questions about Plyler vs. Doe, a Texas case in which the justices ruled, 5-4, that states must provide public education for students in the country illegally. Jim Plyler was the school superintendent in Tyler, and Doe referred to families living in Tyler when Texas cut funding for students in the country illegally.

Mickelson argued that states should now defy the court and ignore the precedent. Cruz, a top student at Harvard Law School and former clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist, resisted that approach.

“Plyler vs. Doe as a legal matter is certainly binding Supreme Court precedent,” he said, adding that even when cases are settled imperfectly, “there is value in legal precedent.”

But he said that in his view, the high court was on shaky constitutional ground in forcing states to educate children in the country illegally.

“There is a very strong argument that the 14th Amendment doesn’t require that,” Cruz said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; cruz; education; tedcruz; texas
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1 posted on 03/10/2015 7:43:09 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

As far as I’m concerned, he just keeps getting better and better.


2 posted on 03/10/2015 7:45:02 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SoConPubbie
I voted for Ted Cruz 3 times

Thank me!

3 posted on 03/10/2015 7:47:57 AM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: Gaffer
As far as I’m concerned, he just keeps getting better and better.

He is the CONSISTENT Conservative!
4 posted on 03/10/2015 7:48:33 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

TRUTH!!!!!!!


5 posted on 03/10/2015 7:48:51 AM PDT by goodnesswins (I think we've reached PEAK TYRANNY now.....)
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To: Gaffer

I totally agree with Ted. This ruling needs to be reversed.


6 posted on 03/10/2015 7:49:07 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: SoConPubbie

You can bet your butt though that the Roberts court is the wrong one to relitigate this.


7 posted on 03/10/2015 7:51:03 AM PDT by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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To: Gaffer
As far as I’m concerned, he just keeps getting better and better.

as I have assured some people in the Cruz operation - his message WILL WIN OUT in the end - because it's the right message. I suspect he'll get "better and better" to a whole lot of folks.....

8 posted on 03/10/2015 7:52:29 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Our God given rights were affirmed by a Constitution for which countless lives were given - our fore bearers.

The only lives given by these invaders’ fore bearers spoke Spanish and many likely at the Alamo massacring Texans.

9 posted on 03/10/2015 7:53:10 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

I pray to Jehovah God that TED Cruz serves as President of the United States for 8 years and then is appointed to serve the rest of a long life on the U.S. Supreme Court.


10 posted on 03/10/2015 7:54:28 AM PDT by DavidLSpud ("Go and sin no more"-Rejoice always, pray continually...)
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RE:”Plyler vs. Doe as a legal matter is certainly binding Supreme Court precedent,” he said, adding that even when cases are settled imperfectly, “there is value in legal precedent.”

This is a bit contrary to those here who claim the court's ruling is meaningless as long was we think its unconstitutional,

I got a few lectures on that one here over the years.

11 posted on 03/10/2015 7:54:29 AM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: DavidLSpud

That’s a great prayer!


12 posted on 03/10/2015 7:57:09 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: lormand

I voted for my Sen Ted Cruz, as well. You’re welcome ;-)


13 posted on 03/10/2015 7:58:14 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: DavidLSpud

TED Cruz serves as President of the United States for 8 years and then is appointed to serve the rest of a long life on the U.S. Supreme Court.

AMEN Brother! A perfect plan for Ted’s future... your lips to God’s ears...

ymmv


14 posted on 03/10/2015 7:59:05 AM PDT by ElectionInspector (Molon Labe...)
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To: SoConPubbie

And he’s right!


15 posted on 03/10/2015 7:59:16 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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"“Plyler vs. Doe becomes a lot less relevant if you don’t have 12 million people living here illegally because we’re securing the borders,” he said."

Obviously true. IIRC, somewhere in the footnotes, the ruling WAS based on a lack of federal enforcement.

16 posted on 03/10/2015 8:01:02 AM PDT by moehoward
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To: Gaffer
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz said Monday that the Supreme Court probably made the wrong decision in 1982 when it ruled that public schools must provide free education to children in the country illegally.

Correct. First: The Federal government has no authority over the education of anyone, therefore the SCOTUS has no jurisdiction on the issue. Second: The SCOTUS violated the scope of enumerated powers given to Congress, not the courts. So the Congress could have authored no such law for the SCOTUS to adjudicate. Third: This was not an interstate transaction such that the question should have come to the Federal courts at all. IOW, this ruling was so far from legal as to be laughable.

17 posted on 03/10/2015 8:08:14 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Democrats: the Party of slavery to the immensely wealthy for over 200 years.)
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To: SoConPubbie
Hey GOPe this is the guy who can both win and govern! Unless you plan to throw another election to the democrats again!
18 posted on 03/10/2015 8:09:49 AM PDT by bonehead4freedom
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To: Carry_Okie

Well stated.

BUMP


19 posted on 03/10/2015 8:13:03 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: SoConPubbie

One of the worst decisions in history, it reads like legislative justification for a policy. It led directly to the explosion of illegal immigration, as they could now bring their kids and the schools had to take them. What used to be seasonal labor and young men sending money home became entire families. California became mexiFornica within 12 years.


20 posted on 03/10/2015 8:18:43 AM PDT by Defiant (Please excuse Mr. Clinton for his involvement with young girls. --Epstein's Mother)
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