and that every professor of constitutional law knows about, called Plyler vs. Doe (1982), the Court ordered Texas to make the same education available to illegal immigrants as it does to citizens. In so doing, the Court held that: (a) the Constitution protects “persons” ; and (b) “persons” are citizens as well as strangers, people born here and people who end up here, people here lawfully and people here unlawfully; and (c) in the area of social services, whatever benefits the government makes available to the general public cannot be kept away from a class of persons based on their immigration status or that of their parents.

It is because of this ruling that Proposition 187 in California, which attempted to do via a referendum what Texas attempted to do via legislation, was invalidated. It is clear from the broad language in the Plyler case that providing an education is in the same class of social benefits as providing health care.

In other words, the U.S. government cannot give “free” health care to citizens without also giving the same free health care to illegal aliens, without violating the Constitution.

I am a huge supporter of immigration and of the rights of immigrants, but those rights do not include the right to sponge off of the hard work of others. In the same way, the welfare louts who continue to vote these Democratic politicians also have no moral right to sponge off of the hard work of others. The two situations are morally identical, and now Judge Napolitano has shown where the two are also legally identical.

So this is how we got here. Of this, there will be no end then. The legal, working tax payers will be required to fork over their $$ to pay for services to anyone who happens to reside in the US. (sigh)

pop for jatfla's comment-- sigh--- so this is how we got here.