Are Children of Illegal Immigrants Entitled to a Public Education?

New Alabama State Immigration Control Act enforcement law mandates schools to determine entrance eligibility for registered students. Since the announcement, the authorities have noticed that 5% of the Hispanic children in the state had missed the classroom. Are illegal immigrant children eligible to receive public education? why?

The editorial of the "New York Times" "Alabama's Shame" argues that the Alabama state immigration law is cruel and counterproductive.

Principal principals and principals confirmed that the school attendance rate of Hispanic children declined significantly as school officials needed to check the entry status of the newly enrolled students and their parents.

This regulation is based on the ambition of the law of reducing the rights and making it impossible to complicate the lives of undocumented people, to make contracts, find jobs, borrow homes or receive government services It is a part of a commitment. In other words, isolation, unemployment, poverty, unarmed, uneducated

Educational strikes have no particular meaning and are unconstitutional. In 1982, the Supreme Court ruled that all children living in the United States have the right to undergo public education regardless of their immigration status. Judge's reasoning is shaped by practice, not compassionate: there is no benefit in persisting lower educated classes in this country.

Student: Please tell me what you think about the immigration law in Alabama. What is the reason for supporting and opposing this clause? Which do you agree with, the opposite? Does the law unfairly prohibit children from attending school? Or is it to prevent illegal immigration from using services for US citizens?

Please give the following comments to the students aged 13 and older. Please use only your name. For reasons of privacy policy, students' comments will not be posted using the last name.

Every child including children of race, religion, gender, political affiliation, even illegal immigrant must receive education. Many people insist that children of illegal immigration are subject to public education? Today, nearly 41 million immigrants live in the United States, and only a small percentage is a child, but in typical immigrant families, usually two parents, 2-5 children, and more There are immigrants. People can not begin to mean that these children are not

Several children of undocumented immigrant parents were born in this country. These children are already public citizens of the United States and have the right to receive education. But their brothers and sisters born in Mexico are still illegal Americans. Is it fair that several children in the family receive public education and other children are deprived? The lawyers group should read the Constitutional issue of the case and its argument. Each lawyer is responsible for submitting at least one of the ten judgments to the Supreme Court. Lawyers should not read words one by one from the article, they should explain their questions about the discussion and prepare to answer.

* This applies to primary school and high school children regardless of immigration status. In 1982, the US Supreme Court decided that illegal children in the country can attend public schools. The court stated that denying public education could "cause lifelong difficulties for children who are not responsible for their disability" (Plyer v. Doe, 103 S. Ct.14, 457 US 202 (1982)). Founder and moderator. He was a retired boys judge and spent 23 years at the bench. He is a lawyer, a judge, a teenager and parents, such as 'Youth Cyber ​​Bullying Survey' (free spirit publication) and 'Any votes: power of your voice, from election of students to the Supreme Court' I am writing some books for. ) Has been released. When he did not answer questions from teenagers, Judge Tom is a volunteer at the American Red Cross and can find hiking, traveling and reading.