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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.