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BumRushDaShow

(169,684 posts)
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 03:30 PM Yesterday

GOP calls to get undocumented children out of public schools grow

Source: The Hill

03/30/26 6:00 AM ET


Republicans are ramping up talks of overturning Plyler v. Doe, the Supreme Court decision that gave children of people living in the country illegally rights to a free public education.

The talks have stretched from Republican states such as Tennessee to the White House, accelerating an immigration crackdown in education under President Trump that began at U.S. universities with foreign students who struggled to get visas or were arrested for their political activism.

At a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing this month, Republican lawmakers said the Supreme Court had no right to make the decision and the additional cost of immigrants lacking permanent legal status in schools was a burden on taxpayers.

“It’s time we meet the moment to overturn Plyler v. Doe. It’s time for Congress and the courts to address the glaring failures of this court decision and finally alleviate Texans and Americans alike from this burden,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5804304-undocumented-kids-public-schools-plyler/



Maybe this what America wants? Ethnic cleansing.
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GOP calls to get undocumented children out of public schools grow (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Yesterday OP
WWJD? Skittles Yesterday #1
We love the poorly educated! Turbineguy Yesterday #2
Hateful assholes can't even see how having uneducated kids hurts America. SunSeeker Yesterday #3
The Republicans just can't keep themselves away from the kids. hadEnuf Yesterday #4
Republicans being republicans. Biophilic Yesterday #5
If there is a living Jesus, he must be hurting pretty bad. Look at the cruelty of his followers towards the least of us. Walleye Yesterday #6
They want an uneducated slave class BubbaJoe Yesterday #7
these parents pay taxes and cant get services msongs 23 hrs ago #8
Hurting children really excites Epstein's buddies struggle4progress 23 hrs ago #9
There is no record what-so-ever popsdenver 21 hrs ago #14
I'm not surprised: the nazis did the same thing back in the 1930s. MLWR 23 hrs ago #10
Then let's push back and overwhelm them with our calls to abandon this fucked up idea. chowder66 22 hrs ago #11
Sick, Poor and Starving! BidenRocks 22 hrs ago #12
This is all the work liberalgunwilltravel 22 hrs ago #13
No- The Repubs want stupid people because they are easier to control with Repub propaganda. flashman13 21 hrs ago #15
The wealthiest among us don't pay their share of taxes, 70sEraVet 21 hrs ago #16
"... the Supreme Court had no right to make the decision?" Grins 21 hrs ago #17
What do you mean... 'maybe'? OldBaldy1701E 20 hrs ago #18
I'd much rather get all Murdoch republicans out of Congress now. Initech 19 hrs ago #19
Don't buy into their crap. That's what they want. Buddyzbuddy 19 hrs ago #20
Cruel and evil. These are the worst people in the world. AllyCat 18 hrs ago #21
Just looked it up Polybius 17 hrs ago #22
Remember, cruelty is a feature of the GOP sakabatou 15 hrs ago #23
And they all claim to be Christian. Old Crank 12 hrs ago #24
Okay, is this the unintended consequence that this proposal will create? no_hypocrisy 8 hrs ago #25
If you think it expensive to educate them .... bucolic_frolic 8 hrs ago #26

hadEnuf

(3,613 posts)
4. The Republicans just can't keep themselves away from the kids.
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 03:44 PM
Yesterday

Whether raping them, starving them, deporting them, blowing them up, and now throwing them out of schools.

These people are monsters and ghouls.

Biophilic

(6,551 posts)
5. Republicans being republicans.
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 03:46 PM
Yesterday

Such fine, upstanding humans. They still don’t want the “slaves” educated. Just like ol’times. Git that banjo playing, brownie. We’ve got mint juleps to drink.

Walleye

(44,793 posts)
6. If there is a living Jesus, he must be hurting pretty bad. Look at the cruelty of his followers towards the least of us.
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 03:53 PM
Yesterday

BubbaJoe

(27 posts)
7. They want an uneducated slave class
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 03:54 PM
Yesterday

They look lovingly on pictures of three fingered children working the textile loom in the "good old days" or digging coal with bare hands.

popsdenver

(2,296 posts)
14. There is no record what-so-ever
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 05:58 PM
21 hrs ago

of where all the hundreds of kids went during Trump's roundup during his first term........very convenient.....

MLWR

(1,023 posts)
10. I'm not surprised: the nazis did the same thing back in the 1930s.
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 04:43 PM
23 hrs ago

And todays christofascists are following the same playbook.

BidenRocks

(3,261 posts)
12. Sick, Poor and Starving!
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 05:31 PM
22 hrs ago

I am so ready for a "Trading Places" with gop/maga.

Let's see how long until they scream 2nd amendment remedies, (again)!

70sEraVet

(5,482 posts)
16. The wealthiest among us don't pay their share of taxes,
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 06:20 PM
21 hrs ago

and in some states, are getting vouchers (paid for by people who actually PAY taxes) to send their kids to private schools. The immigrants ARE paying taxes, so, ironically, they are paying for those vouchers, while their own kids are being shut out of the public schools.
Cruelty seems to be the goal.

Grins

(9,456 posts)
17. "... the Supreme Court had no right to make the decision?"
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 06:35 PM
21 hrs ago

THAT’S a first!! (And says a crap-ton about Republicans.)

Initech

(108,763 posts)
19. I'd much rather get all Murdoch republicans out of Congress now.
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 08:45 PM
19 hrs ago

And nothing of value would be lost there!

Buddyzbuddy

(2,609 posts)
20. Don't buy into their crap. That's what they want.
Mon Mar 30, 2026, 08:56 PM
19 hrs ago

They're setting up the false narrative and we fall into it, everytime.

They're running it up the flagpole for the fall and the last big meetings at church before summer break. They want the preachers to get the message to all of the concerned white parents. And then the media will run with it and ask Democrats why they want the American citizens to carry the tax burden for brown children.

Instead of talking about the drain on our economy by this Administration. The war, the unnecessary destruction and rebuilding for reasons of asthetics, not necessity. For the Felon suing the American taxpayer, for settling with an admitted criminal (Flynn). Last but not least, the Epstein files.

But yes, by all means, let's go after the scourge of our society, the children.

Old Crank

(7,069 posts)
24. And they all claim to be Christian.
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 02:58 AM
12 hrs ago

Unfortunately the "Christian" leaders they say they follow aren't any better.

no_hypocrisy

(54,898 posts)
25. Okay, is this the unintended consequence that this proposal will create?
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 07:22 AM
8 hrs ago

Last edited Tue Mar 31, 2026, 08:18 AM - Edit history (1)

* Pre-K through high school, unable to read, write, think.
* Children going hungry. No school also means no paid lunches, maybe breakfasts as well.
* Parents work, so children are left at home, unattended and not protected from themselves and other children.
* Older children roaming around without supervision, either engaging in criminal mischief or outright crimes.
* At least one generation of children unable to attend community college or college.
* Children growing up and unable to get and keep good-paying jobs.
* Towns in turmoil with undocumented children not being monitored. Yeah, while taxes may go down because of enrollment being decreased, other taxes increase due to more police involvement with the youth.

And dammit! It's hard enough to educate this demographic of students as it currently exists. I sub-teach in towns with more than 50% undocumented students. If we're not challenged by lack of bilingual education, then it's getting their parents involved in order for them to take their studies seriously. Just the opposite: you get the feeling that they believe education isn't "cool" and it's another barrier to success.

bucolic_frolic

(55,121 posts)
26. If you think it expensive to educate them ....
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 07:45 AM
8 hrs ago

turn them into roving gangs of the uneducated with no skills, no future, no interest in a civil society. Sociologists could tell you.

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