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Supreme Court Decision on Right to an Education: The Case of Illegal Alien Children, "Plyler v. Doe". ERS School Research Forum.

Educational Research Service, Arlington, VA. – 1982

Reproduced here are the text of the 1982 Supreme Court decision "Plyler v. Doe" and its companion cases, "In Re Alien Children Litigation." An introductory statement explains that in this opinion the Court struck down a Texas law prohibiting tuition-free education for children of illegal aliens, on the grounds that education…

Descriptors: Access to Education, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education

Between Japanese American Internment and the USA PATRIOT Act: The Borderlands and the Permanent State of Racial Exception

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Michaelsen, Scott – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2005

The general conversation today about the USA PATRIOT Act and its historical and legal significance must be contextualized with reference to a series of 1970s U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding the U.S. Border Patrol that directly undergird the PATRIOT Act. The Supreme Court long ago turned the U.S. borderlands adjoining Mexico into a permanent…

Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Employees, Japanese Americans, Court Litigation