Thread: Abbott’s State of the State Address: Texas Must Double the Budget for Border Security

Good Job, Texas! And thank you. Thank you for filing this lawsuit for the states. Thank you for requesting an increase in your own border security budget. Thank you for sending National Guard Troops to the border. Now, there's one more thing you need to do, and that is file a lawsuit on behalf of your school districts to overturn Plyler versus Doe, a horrible US Supreme Court decision that ruled against the state law and the school district of Tyler, Texas. I totally believe that all states, especially those hardest hit by illegal immigration can certainly show that they have a burgeoning and substantial interest in denying public education to illegal aliens, no different than federal law that denies Medicaid services to illegal aliens, no different than excluding illegal aliens from having Social Security numbers, no different than excluding illegal aliens from our job market.

The Plyler vs Doe decision plucked out of the array of rights, immunities and privileges reserved for citizens of the United States, and handed one to illegal aliens, based on crooked and twisted thinking. They rendered a social welfare decision, instead of one that is consistent with the law. They determined because these were school children, they were "persons" and treating them differently than citizens and legal immigrants was "discrimination". Perhaps in the narrow-minded racist view of the Supreme Court, they considered them all "Mexicans", and thus were being denied educations or charged fees because they were Mexicans. No, they were not being discriminated against because of their national origin, they were being treated differently because they were illegal aliens, regardless of their national origin. It matters not whether the illegal aliens are Mexican, Irish, English, Greek, African, Iranian or Canadian. They are excluded from the rights, privileges and immunities because they are illegal aliens, they are not under our jurisdiction, they are invaders and moochers, and their national origin is irrelevant.

But alas, the Supreme Court couldn't see them as normal persons subject to the same laws as everyone else, couldn't treat them equally under the 14th Amendment and hold them accountable for their actions and deny them rights and privileges to which they were not entitled, oh no, an ultimately racist Supreme Court labeled them by their origin, not by their actions, and by so doing created a special class of foreign criminal roaming our nation accountable to no one and nothing, a situation that has haunted our nation for 40 years. It's time the US Supreme Court grows up, lays aside its historic racism, and treats everyone in the US the same, regardless of national origin, which means if you are here legally you can go to school, if you are here illegally, you can't go to school because you can't do anything here legally, except leave.

The single question before the court to overturn Plyler v Doe is:

Are illegal aliens excluded from public benefits because of their national origin or because they are illegal aliens? If the answer is because they are illegal aliens, then the 14th Amendment has nothing to do with it, because it is not discrimination based on their national origin, it's exclusion from public benefits because they are illegal aliens and not entitled to the benefits, regardless of their national origin.

So Texas, it's time you clean up this mess and file the suits necessary to overturn Plyler v Doe. Your failure to properly argue this case has burdened our nation with a Supreme Court Ruling we do not want, can not afford, and should not be strangled by for one more minute of one more day.