A growing number of conservatives want to harness the momentum around President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda to end the 44-year-old precedent guaranteeing undocumented children the right to an education.
Conservative lawmakers at the state and federal levels are voicing their concerns about the education of undocumented K-12 students as they try to cut back on the resources spent on undocumented immigrants and encourage stronger efforts to challenge the precedent.
“The taxpayers shouldn’t have to fund illegal alien children by federal mandate,” Rep. Chip Roy, a Texan running to become the state’s attorney general in November, told NOTUS. “If people want to be educated, then they can go home. Or we can certainly have some debate about what to do, but it’s a wrong opinion and we’re having to pay the bill.”