Plyler vs. Doe is a court case that dealt with the issues of illegal immigrant children attending public school for free. It all started in 1975 when the Texas Legislature allowed school districts to turn away students due to their undocumented status. Then in 1977 the Tyler Independent School District created a rule saying if the student could not prove he or she was legally admitted to the United States with either the conformation from federal immigration authorities saying the student was in the process of getting documentation or showing documentation, the student had to pay a tuition. After this was put in place a group of immigrant students who were not able to prove their legal immigrant status under the school district's policy filed a lawsuit against the Tyler Independent School district. When the the lawsuit went to court it was deemed that the School District's policy violated the constitution. After this ruling the case was taken to the supreme court for further review, the supreme court ruled with a five to four vote that the school district's policy saying undocumented students had to pay a tuition to its …show more content…
This was an economic issue because someone would have to pay for the illegal immigrant students educations because in all reality the schools are not free they are just payed for with the tax payers money, and with the students being undocumented it would not cost them. With Undocumented students attending public schools at no cost it would use up public funding that the undocumented students did not contribute to. The money needed to pay for the education of the students would therefore cost the legal tax paying citizens when it would not if the illegal immigrant students paid their way or did not attend the free public