Immigration Outside the Law

by Hiroshi Motomura

Book Overview

In 1975, Texas adopted a law allowing school districts to bar children from public schools if they were in the United States unlawfully. The US Supreme Court responded in 1982 with a landmark decision, Plyler v. Doe, that kept open the schoolhouse doors, allowing these children to get the education that state law would have denied. The Court established a child's constitutional right to attend public elementary and secondary schools, regardless of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199768439
• ISBN13: 9780199768431
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.8" x 9.5"