A republic is doomed when its populace no longer
values citizenship. The United States
has just about reached that point. A
1982 Supreme Court case, Plyler v Doe, dealt a blow not only to Congress’
constitutional prerogative on rules of naturalization; it also legitimized illegal
aliens and undermined the sovereignty of the United States.
What the Supreme Court did was reprehensible. Not only did they violate the law, our
Constitution, they have caused a schism within the States and our local
communities. Illegal alien children can attend
public schools, at taxpayer expense; yet, their parents can’t participate in
their child’s education. The Charlotte Observer reports:
A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools team assigned
to find a way undocumented immigrant parents can volunteer in schools is
running short on time and even shorter on potential solutions to the hot-button
issue.
The team’s final meeting is Tuesday, and
it has yet to find a quick, easily affordable fix to the current policy, which
requires anyone volunteering in schools to produce a Social Security number and
driver’s license for a criminal background check.
Undocumented immigrants – people not in
the country legally – do not have such forms of identification, making it
impossible for them to volunteer in schools where their children are students.
The team has so far only identified one
possible alternative to the current policy: Accepting a valid passport, along
with fingerprinting.
However, CMS officials said in June that
resorting to fingerprinting parents would be cost-prohibitive, not to mention
incompatible with the current program.
Team member Hector Vaca, an advocate for
immigrants with Action NC, is critical of the team’s “slow” progress and said he’ll
show up at the Tuesday meeting with a proposal that the study group continue
meeting until a solution can be found.
Otherwise, he said, “the entire effort
yielded nothing.”
CMS officials said last week that they
would be open to extending its study, if the group agreed to it.
“We won’t reach any type of consensus or
agreement on solutions by the end of the last meeting, which means undocumented
parents will continue to be excluded during the school year,” Vaca said.
And yet, there are those who deem a
judicial oligarchy infallible. The consequences
of Plyler v. Doe state otherwise.
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