We either make illegal immigration illegal — or we stop pretending.
For years, we’ve claimed to oppose illegal immigration while offering taxpayer-funded benefits to those here unlawfully. If life in the United States became less accommodating, many would choose to leave on their own. A logical first step: Stop offering free public education to those who entered the country illegally. That policy has flooded our schools with linguistic chaos, cultural fragmentation, and administrative strain.
Denying free education to those in the country illegally is not a punishment — it’s a refusal to provide benefits to people who have no legal claim to them.
Tennessee is the first state in recent memory to move in the direction of sanity.
Last Thursday, the Tennessee Senate passed SB 836, sponsored by state
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