08-06-2010, 09:37 PM
Thinking objectively about this begs a question. Wouldn't it be a "god given right" to be a citizen of the place, the soil, where one is born? Or are there two kinds of "god given rights"?
A more significant Supreme Court decision was in 1982 in Plyler v. Doe... a 5-4 decision that said a state has to provide a public education to children regardless of immigration status. The court also said that a public education is not a right and that a state would merely have to show that it would cost more money to the taxpayers of the state to provide a free public education to illegals than to not provide a free public education to them. Texas or any other state since then has never challenged this decision. Why? And why is no one zeroing in on this?
In my opinion this one issue has been the element responsible for the mass illegal immigration that has taken place in the last 30 years. A large part of the illegal immigration wave and amount of "anchor babies" has been due solely to the attraction of a free public education in this country.
A more significant Supreme Court decision was in 1982 in Plyler v. Doe... a 5-4 decision that said a state has to provide a public education to children regardless of immigration status. The court also said that a public education is not a right and that a state would merely have to show that it would cost more money to the taxpayers of the state to provide a free public education to illegals than to not provide a free public education to them. Texas or any other state since then has never challenged this decision. Why? And why is no one zeroing in on this?
In my opinion this one issue has been the element responsible for the mass illegal immigration that has taken place in the last 30 years. A large part of the illegal immigration wave and amount of "anchor babies" has been due solely to the attraction of a free public education in this country.