Branstad: Illegal immigrant children should be denied public education
By Jason Hancock 7/29/10 8:00 AM

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Children of immigrants in the country illegally should not be allowed to attend public schools in Iowa, so the court decision that made that the law of the land should be overturned, Republican candidate for governor Terry Branstad said Tuesday in a radio interview.

While speaking with WHO-AM’s Jan Mickelson, Branstad was asked about the U.S. Supreme Court case of Plyer v. Doe, a 1982 decision that struck down a Texas statute denying funding for education to children who were illegal immigrants. The court found that the policy was in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, as immigrant children are people “in any ordinary sense of the term,â€