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Educating illegal aliens

12/28/01

This whole insanity of allowing (urging) the children of illegal aliens, themselves just as illegal, to attend our public schools at American taxpayer's expense, seems to have really gotten its start with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the very early '80s.

In that decision, which was five to four, the justices said constitutional guarantees of equal protection under the law extends to those in the country illegally.

This ruling struck down a Texas law that prohibited illegal alien children from attending school.

In Arizona, illegal aliens regularly attend classes because the state's legal definition only deals with "residency" and not nationality.

Calling a denial of education a "hardship on a discreet class of children", the Supreme Court ruled that prohibiting illegal aliens from going to school would create an unfair "stigma of illiteracy."

In the majority opinion written by Justice William J. Brennan, he said, "By denying these children an education, we deny them the ability to live within the structure of our civic institutions and foreclose any realistic possibility that they will contribute in even the smallest way to the progress of our nation."

Any freshman in the first semester of Logic 101 would see the fallacy of this line of thought. Why should there be a concern as to whether or not they are prepared to contribute to the progress of our nation when they are not legally allowed to even be in our nation?

Simply see that they are returned to their country of origin, which should be the only party responsible for their education, and we can get on about the business of taking care of our own citizens. It's the LAW!

Richard H.
Elfrida, AZ