Texas’s governor wants to deny education to undocumented migrants
How serious is Greg Abbott about challenging a 40-year-old federal precedent?
AMERICA GUARANTEES every child living within its borders a free public education. This could change if Greg Abbott, Texas’s Republican governor, has his way. He has said he intends to challenge a Supreme Court ruling that obliges states to provide free schooling to undocumented immigrants. Perhaps as many as 183,000 pupils are currently in Texas’s schools.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Meanness to migrants”
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