Questionable Supreme Court Ruling Forces U.S. Schools to Enroll Illegal Alien Students

In 1982, in a 5-4 questionable decision, the Supreme Court ruled in Plyler v. Doe that public schools were prohibited from denying illegal alien students access to a public education from grades K-12. The Court stated that illegal alien children have the same right to a free public education as U.S. citizens and permanent residents. This ruling has had far reaching effects on the educational system in the U.S.

The following is a summary of their ruling:
1. Public schools are prohibited from maintaining policies that would deny students an education based on their immigration status.
2. School officials cannot require children to prove they are in this country legally by asking for green cards, citizenship papers, passports, visas, etc.
3. School officials cannot take any action or ask any questions intentionally or unintentionally which may expose a child's legal status in this country, as it may cause a "chilling effect" on the child's rights to public education under the Plyler ruling.
4. Schools will not require Social Security numbers for children. If a child has no SSN, then the school will generate a local number for the child. Requiring a SSN can have a "chilling effect" under the Plyler ruling.
5. Any communication to Homeland Security about a specific student by a school official is prohibited.
6. Requests for information by Homeland Security: School personnel are prohibited from cooperating with INS in any way that may jeopardize an immigrant students' right of access.

Rather then addressing the problem of illegal immigration & discouraging it, the Supreme Court has encouraged illegal immigration & has put an unwarranted tax burden on American citizens to educate these illegals as well as the tax payer burden of corollary social services.

In simple terms, the Supreme Court ruling means this:
1. A child can walk into a public school & freely admit to being an illegal alien - to being in this country illegally. The school must accept this illegal alien into the school system & educate him. The child cannot be denied.
2. The school, knowing or suspecting the child is an illegal alien, is prohibited from contacting Homeland Security or any other agency & reporting the child or his parents as illegal aliens.
3. The school, knowing or not knowing if the child is an illegal alien, cannot ask for identification in the form of passports, visas, green cards or any other documentation that may reveal the child's immigration staus. The court reasons that illegal aliens would be "chilled" by such requests - meaning they would be less likely to enroll & have their child educated if such documentation was requested.
4. Social Security numbers are required in the routine course of completing school paperwork. However, if a child has none, he cannot be told he must get one. Instead, the child will be assigned a local school number for paperwork purposes. The child's parents can not be told to get a SSN,either, if they have none. Remember the catchy phrase, "chilling effect"? As such, school Free or Reduced Lunch programs or other programs that require SSN's for adult household members will not be required from members who do not have one, but will instead be given a locally generated number or write "none" on any forms.
5. School officials will not cooperate with Homeland Security or other federal agencies upon any inquiry of a student, unless a valid, specific warrant is presented.

The infinite wisdom of the Supreme Court .