SCOTUS ruled in 1982 that cities and states couldn't deny access to public schools based on immigration status, forcing schools into having to accept illegal aliens ever since.
— ButlerofThanos (@ButlerofThanos) January 27, 2025
Citizens are scratching their heads trying to find out what so many undocumented Mexicans have been living in the United States for two to three decades unchecked and unenforced. One, there is nothing to enforce because the Supreme Court provides for or guarantees illegal aliens to an education.
Looks like Plyler, a Texas resident, brought a lawsuit against Texas in Plyler v. Doe.
Held: A Texas statute which withholds from local school districts any state funds for the education of children who were not "legally admitted" into the United States, and which authorizes local school districts to deny enrollment to such children, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Check out the language of the law. "Whatever his status under the immigration laws, an alien is a "person" in any ordinary sense of that term."
(a) The illegal aliens who are plaintiffs in these cases challenging the statute may claim the benefit of the Equal Protection Clause, which provides that no State shall "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Whatever his status under the immigration laws, an alien is a "person" in any ordinary sense of that term. This Court's prior cases recognizing that illegal aliens are "persons" protected by the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which Clauses do not include the phrase "within its jurisdiction," cannot be distinguished on the asserted ground that persons who have entered the country illegally are not "within the jurisdiction" of a State even if they are present within its boundaries and subject to its laws. Nor do the logic and history of the Fourteenth Amendment support such a construction. Instead, use of the phrase "within its jurisdiction" confirms the understanding that the Fourteenth Amendment's protection extends to anyone, citizen or stranger, who is subject to the laws of a State, and reaches into every corner of a State's territory. Pp. 457 U. S. 210-216.
The 1982 U.S. Surpreme Court case Plyler v. Doe established that denying children access to free public K-12 education violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.
