Switch to Desktop Site  Keeping the school door open to all
children  About these ads  A series of good results ought to
follow the US Supreme Court's ruling that young illegal aliens
may not be excluded from the free public schooling available to
other children in America:  * In the specific instance of Texas,
which sought the exclusion, all children will remain eligible
for free public education. Illegal aliens have been included
under lower court order since 1980. It was good to hear Governor
Clements say the state could continue accommodating them without
undue strain. (Most of those entering the US illegally are said
to be single adult males without children anyway.) The governor
not unreasonably suggests that federal funding assistance is
warranted, since failures in federal enforcement of immigration
law have contributed to the increase in illegal aliens.  * Other
states now will be deterred from discriminating against alien
children, as some were expected to do if Texas had won its case.
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