Each state will have some differences, but based on some common sense in so far as patters of legislation among the Western states at least (with the exception of California and now Oregon) the following is probably consistent throughout the immediately impacted States along the border with Mexico.
The Texas Education Code says early on as follows:
A thorough reading of the Education Code might disclose some qualifiers and/or language that restricts that rather broad phrase (to say the least), but on the surface ....
.. that would include someone in the jurisdiction or geographical boundaries ILLEGALLY.
Originally Posted by LexusLover
And that's what i am disagreeing with. WHY SHOULD the kids of illegal aliens, "Shall have free education provided for them"?
I'm intimately acquainted with both legal immigration and illegal immigration ... it has the same distinction as consensual sex and rape ... aside from THE FACT that one is LEGAL AND THE OTHER ILLEGAL ...
.. But I'm also familiar with the "strawman" argument of the Liberals who want to confuse the two so as to sound reasonable.
I thought for a moment that the omission of "Illegal" was an oversight, but now I see it was not.
Originally Posted by LexusLover
That imo is why for years, the left's been attempting to REMOVE the term "illegal alien" from common parlance, and replace it with "Undocumented immigrant" so as to
A) make people think its less of a crime
and B) make it sound like those who still wish to use the IA phrase, are bigots.
... they've been ignoring it and pretending it doesn't exist.
Pardoning so they can't be deported is not really making it legal.
Releasing them instead of handing them over to ICE doesn't either.
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Originally Posted by LexusLover
And with the # of times i've read a news article saying something to the effect of "Right after X local prison/court failed to honor an ICE detainer, and released Y illegal alien, that person went on to commit crime Z". I FEEL its high time we started Arresting and charging those who DO said releases/harboring via being a sanctuary city, with being an ACCESSORY to those crimes..