Posted on 09/29/2014 6:50:54 PM PDT by Nachum
FRANKFORD, Del. (AP) -- American schools are scrambling to provide services to the large number of children and teenagers who crossed the border alone in recent months.
Unaccompanied minors who made up the summer spike at the border have moved to communities of all sizes, in nearly every state, Federal data indicates, to live with a relative and await immigration decisions. The Supreme Court has ruled that schools have an obligation to educate all students regardless of their immigration status, so schools have become a safe haven for many of the tens of thousands of these young people mostly from central America living in limbo.
Delaware's rural Sussex County has long attracted immigrants, partly because of work in chicken factories, and soybean and corn fields. The district's population is more than one-quarter Hispanic, and for years has offered an early learning program for non-English speakers.
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Here’s an idea, call the police and have them arrested for crossing the border illegally. Then seize Mexican assets to reimburse the costs associated in sending them back.
If you didn’t know any better, you’d think this was a huge humanitarian refugee crisis caused by bad weather, a war or famine.
I had better never hear a school teacher bitching about having to buy school supplies out of their own pockets.
As a liberal community, they bring this on themselves.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH YEAH. Right on the mark be you.
PAY UP HOMEOWNERS!
GET BACK TO WORK!
US taxpayers scrambling to make a new even tighter family budget to help pay for increased school taxes.
I was amazed at the throngs of parents lining up to protest/stop this nonsense from happening, in all of the schools, across the USA.
Not....no protests were held...unless I missed something :-/
ANOTHER reason to abolish government schools.
That's rich.
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My post: That 1982 Supreme Court ruling is the reason we need Constitutional amendments like the following to try to control illegal immigration:
1. "School attendance: Only citizens, legal residents, those with special student visas can attend elementary, high school, and colleges in the United States."
2. "One parent must be a citizen before a newborn child is given automatic citizenship."
3. Felony: We must finally get very serious and declare that crossing the border illegally is a felony. It sounds mean to call it a felony, but we must do it, if we will ever have any chance of controlling our borders. Having the same illegals crossing our borders over and over is wrong,wrong, and wrong.
Illegal immigrant parents come to the United States for the wonderful benefits that their children can receive, like a quality education and great health care. Can you blame them for making the dangerous, long trip with their young children, or sending their children by themselves with the hope that the United States will automatically let them stay?
I don't understand how a child can illegally cross the southern border one day and automatically be eligible to enroll in public school the next day. That is wrong.
People who live in areas where their property taxes went up because of illegals flooding the schools should refuse to pay the increase.
AP article authored by a Kimberly Hefling states; “Supreme Court ruled that all schools have the obligation to educate all students regardless of immigration status”
Never heard of such a ruling. What is the case if it exists is she citing ? Or is this another Zimmerman/Ferguson creation ?
The US INS is a department run under the direction of commissioners/ director appointed by the senate and sworn to serve under the constitution and pledged to serve it and not oblidged to follow any administration whims or agenda which may run contrary to the national interest and or the constitution.
Is it in the national interest to allow immigrants entrance into the United States without a health certification and background check ?
Quote from a person who posted an earlier message here: The schools have no choice when it comes to providing K-12 education. SCOTUS made that mandatory with Plyler vs Doe in 1982. Here in Fairfax County, Virginia we pay $104 million a year for ESOL instruction for 31,000 students.
That application is cited as an argument used by supporters but that ruling seems to me applies for a specific case which might not apply as a precedent. Do you know of any subsequent rulings that might apply where that was upheld ?.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Not only is the italicized statement above concerning the Supreme Court’s ruling about schools being obligated to educate all students vague, no specific case mentioned, but please consider the following. The Founding States made the 10th Amendment to clarify that the Constitution’s silence about things like public schooling and immigration means that such issues are automatically state power issues.
So not only does the Supreme Court’s ruling about public school obligations have no obvious constitutional support, but the constitution’s silence about public schooling also means that there is no constitutional right to schooling even if you are a citizen.
And speaking of the constitutional rights of citizens, please consider the following excerpts. Two of the excerpts are from the Constitution, one from the congressional record, and another from a Supreme Court case opinion. All excerpts reasonably indicate that constitutional protections are guaranteed only for citizens.
Constitution's Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1: The Citizens of each State [emphasis added] shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
“Mr. Speaker, this House may safely follow the example of the makers of the Constitution and the builders of the Republic, by passing laws for enforcing all the privileges and immunities of the United States as guaranteed by the amended Constitution and expressly enumerated in the Constitution [emphasis added].” — Congressional Globe, House of Representatives, 42nd Congress, 1st Session. (See lower half of third column.)
“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphases added].” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
So even if the states had amended the Constitution to make schooling a right, such a right wouldn’t necessarily apply to illegal aliens.
Again, wherever the statement about the Supreme Court ruling on school obligations to illegal aliens came from, it has no constitutional basis imo.
Insights welcome.
Traitors.
Are these the same children that 70% don’t show up for court hearings? Cake and eat it too!
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