AS AM 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: John Van De Kamp, Attorney General Of California, Gil Cedillo

• School: UCSB
• Department: Asian American Studies
• Course: AS AM 2
• Professor: John S.W.Park

Document Summary

The state of california can choose to only hire california residents and let go of illegal migrants. The case from the tyler school district in east texas; the schools there were charging per student to all families who could not prove lawful residency. The strangeness of the case, racial profiling, privacy, personhood in the equal protecction. 14th amendment says no person is refused the right of law. Plaintiff"s don"t remember or realize they have a status based problem. Argued that they were being punished unfairly because they did not control coming over illegally. This allowed students who were not legally in the us to matriculate into public schools. Attorney general john van de kamp in 1984: undocumented students should be regarded as non-residents for tuition purposes at the state"s public universities. Said that colleges should be out of access for undocumented immigrants. Sided with the plaintiffs and said the attorney general was wrogn.