In a number of PR stunts, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered troopers to inspect every every commercial truck coming into Texas from Mexico, and bus undocumented immigrants to Washington D.C.
The Texas governor has been cheered on by members of Texas’s increasingly far right legislature, as well as by— who have urged him to allow state troopers and National Guardsmen to send would-be migrants back across the border.
Governor Abbott, coming off of Texas’s recent victories at the U.S. Supreme Court regarding its law allowing private citizens to sue abortion providers and others who assist people in getting abortions, has also now set his sights on another judicial precedent: He has proposed allowing local school districts to deny undocumented children access to public schools.
As the governor knows too well, undocumented children’s right to access to public schools has long been settled case law. Texas tried this once before, in 1975, when it amended its education laws so as to deny local school districts funds for educating undocumented children. Six years later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, inIt was this ruling that kicked in more than a decade later, in 1994, when voters in California — at the time headed by Republican Gov.
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