Thread: Texas Holds the Line: Won’t Let Schools Use State Funding for Illegal Immigrant Kids’

Revisit Plyer vs. Doe. What a burden to taxpayers. What a disastrous impact on providing quality education to children of American citizens. Billions of dollars for languages, tutors, free breakfast and lunch, daycare, health care.

Also, quality teachers are often not chosen if they lack Spanish language skills.

I heard Oakland stopped their after school meal program.

Good grief...since when are we being forced to pay for DINNER now!

Breakfast and lunch is bad enough...PLUS they get welfare and food stamps!

This is out of control. Make your child breakfast, pack them a lunch and make their dinner yourself or do not have them!

Why are we being forced to pay for people to romp in the sack and have kids they cannot feed or take care of! This whole concept to pay for people to boink is ridiculous!

You can romp all you want...YOU pay the bill for it!

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeach

Revisit Plyer vs. Doe. What a burden to taxpayers. What a disastrous impact on providing quality education to children of American citizens. Billions of dollars for languages, tutors, free breakfast and lunch, daycare, health care.

Also, quality teachers are often not chosen if they lack Spanish language skills.

Yes! The court made a ruling on what laws there were. That does not preclude Congress from making new laws that superseded what was ruled on. The courts were not supposed to have the final word. But Congress continues to not step up to the plate!

From American Immigration Council

In June 1982, the Supreme Court issued Plyler v. Doe, a landmark decision holding that states cannot constitutionally deny students a free public education on account of their immigration status.

Schools are generally obligated to provide public education to residences of their area. Legally, children in the country illegally cannot be legal residences.

In more modern application, the states do not have jurisdiction to grant legal status in the United States. Therefore, illegal aliens are mandated to Federal custody, and the Federal government is responsible for all costs, not the states. So while the states can be compelled to educate such illegal alien children, all of the costs, including additional costs for interpreters or bilingual teachers, must be born by the Federal government.

Congress could make law mandating that, I'd like to see SCOTUS overturn that on Constitutional grounds. The Constitution does not guarantee education to everybody. So this was another case of a court finding a right that isn't there.

Plyler vs.Doe was not a unanimous decision. So revisiting that matter might come out with a different conclusion.

Originally Posted by jtdc

Plyler vs.Doe was not a unanimous decision. So revisiting that matter might come out with a different conclusion.

5 to 4


Majority---Brennan, Marshall, Blackmun, Powell, Stevens

Dissent---Burger, White, Rehnquist, O'Connor