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KOA’s Mike Rosen agreed with Colorado Attorney General John Suthers Thursday that the legal decision forcing states to offer a grade-school education to undocumented children is bogus.
If you don’t think this tidbit deserves to be my first blog post of the week, you would be wrong.
The federal requirement to give a basic education to all children, regardless of immigration status, is a long-settled legal matter.
No reporter, no teacher, no chef, no mom, no dad, not even a Republican talk-radio host, should let Colorado’s top-dog lawyer trash this Supreme Court decision in favor of undocumented kids without any discussion or scrutiny whatsoever.
Too much is at stake. We’re talking about grade-school education for some of the most vulnerable children in our country. And Suthers’s unsympathetic tone on Rosen’s radio show seems to indicate that it’s not just the legal issues that bother him, but the notion that children of illegal immigrants should be offered a public-school education in the world’s richest nation.
Here’s what Suthers had to say on the topic, which came up during a discussion of the ASSET bill, granting a tuition break to children of illegal immigrants, which Suthers called the “a complete run around” of two federal statutes.
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers: For some incredible reason, in 1982, the United States Supreme Court in a case called Plyler v. Doe, I think it was a San Antonio case, said any child regardless of immigration status is eligible for a free primary or secondary education. I’ve never been able to find that in the United States Constitution, but they said it’s in the 14th Amendment.
Rosen: Yes, which was all about slavery by the way, but that’s another story.
Rosen should have Suthers back on his radio show to illuminate more details on this topic, and, meanwhile, Rosen should bring a guest on air who will defend the basic humanity — and legal reasoning — for giving undocumented children a public-school education.
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For a state Attorney General to play dumb like that is just offensive. For Rosen, it’s his job description.
that was the decision and as long as it stands, it stands, whether Suthers likes it or not. Is he planning to try to get it overturned?
But it will also set him up for defeat in the general.
Winner
Q: If it could be done at no increased expense, would you prefer smaller class size? lower teacher/student ratio?
Loser
Q: Would you support proof of citizenship for all k-12 students ?
Time and time again John Suthers has let partisan considerations cloud his legal opinions. The first time was when he said Joan FitzGerald could not run for another term. It took the Court about five minutes to throw out that bogus claim. A good AG can be partisan but not in the legal advice he tenders.
This contrasts with Gale Norton, Ken Salazar and every other Colorado AG who gave honest legal advice.
1. Birth control is evil. So, it needs to banned worldwide. And, don’t even contemplate having an abortion.
2. Therefore, women will have lots of kids.
3. And, some of those will be illegal aliens as population pressure from around the globe will cause people to flow to where there is more opportunity.
4. Those kids should not be educated so they will have more kids themselves, but won’t (due to lack of education) be able to support them. Leaving the taxpayer to now pay more in support for children who are US citizens.
5. Except that the Repubs will gut/cut the support monies so these children will form feral gangs and attack the privileged classes in their country clubs.
For private security guards.
Haven’t you been to the developing world? It’s the Republican model.
Or are the bigots and fear mongors among us worse than they have been since the late 50’s and 60’s.
For Suthers to play into this illegal immigrant madness and start challenging small children’s free education is a stunning reminder how far Republican leaders have fallen in the last 10 years.
But now they have talk radio and the interwebz to spread their hateful horseshit.
As a number of people have noted on this blog, the sainted Ronald Reagan himself couldn’t get nominated in today’s GOP.
Is that the parties have finally split along ideological grounds. In the past we Dems had Southern conservatives in our party while the GOP had moderate business people. It forced both parties to operate from the middle.
With the ideological split, each party has moved towards its base. And the politically active GOP base is bat-shit insane. We’ve apparently had a significantly large number of people off the deep end and with the ideological split, they’ve been able to gain immense influence on the Republican party.