The education of a child. any child. whether a citizen of this Nation or not. is an important matter. This is exactly that the Court expressed when reviewing the case of Plyler against Doe. Texas against certain undocumented alien children. In deciding the fate of those undocumented alien children. the Court. for the first time ever. applied to illegal aliens the 14th amendment promise that no State shall "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." The majority opinion is a very precise statement of American truth and justice. The Court ruled that illegal aliens are persons protected by the Constitutions guarantee of equal protection and that the Texas law violated this guarantee. It was argued that these undocumented workers were not persons within the jurisdiction of the State and thus had no right to equal protection. Fortunately. this was rejected by the majority and Justice Brennan wrote: Whatever his status under the immigration laws. an alien is surely a "person" in any ordinary sense of that term. The equal protection clause was intended to work nothing less than the abolition of all casteand individuals. classbased legislation. This very law that the Courts rule pointed to is what makes our Nation so great.
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