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The requirement for a birth certificate is not new. But some parents’ difficulty in obtaining them is. The Texas Department of State Health Services recently declared that the matrÃcula, a Mexican consular ID card, is no longer considered acceptable for parents trying to get a birth certificate. The result may be that many undocumented parents of U.S.-born children are unable to get the documents they need to enroll these little U.S. citizens in school.
Glad to see this happening, but the PC crowd will surely shoot it down. Never mind that the children of illegals are already overcrowding the classrooms, and their lack of English holds the entire class behind. What gets me is that the illegals have the nerve to sue over this. Unbelievable.
Since I live in TX and just renewed my license I read the acceptable ID forms for the heck of it.... when it came to visa and green card it specifically stated Valid Unexpired. ....
So...... seems that the State of TX should easily have a valid defense against this BS as it is clearly stated everywhere what is needed for any type of Official documentation.
Glad to see this happening, but the PC crowd will surely shoot it down. Never mind that the children of illegals are already overcrowding the classrooms, and their lack of English holds the entire class behind. What gets me is that the illegals have the nerve to sue over this. Unbelievable.
The requirement for a birth certificate is not new. But some parents’ difficulty in obtaining them is. The Texas Department of State Health Services recently declared that the matrÃcula, a Mexican consular ID card, is no longer considered acceptable for parents trying to get a birth certificate. The result may be that many undocumented parents of U.S.-born children are unable to get the documents they need to enroll these little U.S. citizens in school.
So what? IF you're in the US illegally; leave and take your anchors with you.
Even kids don't even have to be legal to attend public schools in the USA. I think one issue in Texas is age. Child must be 5 by September 1 to enter Kindergarten. Without a birth certificate, hard to prove. I've never understood, before this issue, how illegals with children who are NOT citizens proved age. My husband works for a local school district (not Dallas) and is constantly dealing with foreign born parents who are NOT illegal wanting to enroll their children in K early, and they are pushy as hell that their kid doesn't have to follow the rules.
Even kids don't even have to be legal to attend public schools in the USA. I think one issue in Texas is age. Child must be 5 by September 1 to enter Kindergarten. Without a birth certificate, hard to prove. I've never understood, before this issue, how illegals with children who are NOT citizens proved age. My husband works for a local school district (not Dallas) and is constantly dealing with foreign born parents who are NOT illegal wanting to enroll their children in K early, and they are pushy as hell that their kid doesn't have to follow the rules.
That law you're talking about is insane, just insane.
I rolled my eyes in amazement when I read the last sentence of this article.
"All of this seems like a lot of unnecessary hair-splitting for the sake of making unauthorized immigrants’ lives a lot harder".
Oh gee, make lawbreaker's lives a lot harder? What was Dallas thinking?
Dallas is very squishy when it comes to illegals; if the Dallas ISD lost illegals from its student body, it'd lose TONS of money in state funding. The city of Dallas itself is a minority-majority city, with Hispanics making up the largest segment of the population. Therefore, they are pandered to by some city officials...though not all, as a lot of city and county government is still locked up tight by a small cronyish band of old school African Americans.
Dallas's city, county, and ISD politics have all been polluted by race-baiting and pandering as long as I can remember. This is just more evidence of that.
The ISD certainly has a financial interest in making sure that these illegals and anchor babies are enrolled. Butts in seats = $$$.
It's pathetic.
Thank god I don't pay taxes to the Dallas ISD. When I bought my house, I deliberately bought in an inner-ring suburb that has excellent public schools specifically to get away from Dallas's crappy city management and from paying taxes to the trainwreck that passes for a school district there.
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