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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Agree.
No access to public goods unless child is legal status, permanent.
No citizenship by birth for kids of illegals or tourists.or may be any foreigner- they can all apply for greencard or residency status.
Fine on illegal employee and employer
No drivers licenses or IDs for non permanent residents 
Tax or fee on cash remittances sent abroad.

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So you think children of students, guest workers or employees of international organizations should not be able to attend public schools? Just making sure I understand.[/quote]

NP. I am not necessarily agreeing with the PP, but I think it's pretty clear that children of students (on a valid student visa), guest workers here legally, and employees of international organizations are here legally - children presumably have the status of their parents. People unable (or unwilling) to make common-sense distinctions like this are the reason we can't even have a conversation about immigration reform.

I think that allowing children of undocumented immigrants into public schools is putting an enormous strain on school systems (see MCPS) that they cannot and were not designed to handle, and I don't love that we are paying for ESOL, FARMS, etc. for children who aren't citizens or who aren't entitled to be in the country. But they're children who didn't have a choice to come here. It's pretty unconscionable to argue that they shouldn't be in school - what else should they be doing, once they're here? And if they aren't in school, that's going to create more issues - gang violence, another generation of a completely uneducated underclass, possibly illiterate adults, etc. What do we do about that?[/quote]

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