silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoThe Right-Wing Dream of ‘Self-Deportation’ | Some conservatives have a grim proposal to make undocumented immigrants leave: Exclude their children from schools.www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1223arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1219arrow-down1external-linkThe Right-Wing Dream of ‘Self-Deportation’ | Some conservatives have a grim proposal to make undocumented immigrants leave: Exclude their children from schools.www.nytimes.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square19fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
This is exceptionally cruel, and condemns kids (many of whom are US citizens) to a lifetime of poverty. A similar measure in California passed a generation ago, was struck down by the courts, and helped usher in an era where the Republican party in the state is permanently in the minority.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·4 months agoThis is explicitly about barring kids, who are already US citizens, from being able to attend school because their parents are undocumented.
This is explicitly about barring kids, who are already US citizens, from being able to attend school because their parents are undocumented.