MS>    Because the _aliens_ being denied welfare under the welfare-reform 
ill
MS>not "citizens"!
MS>    Also, congress has the authority to decide what categories of people 
are
MS>eligible for welfare, generally.  (For instance, congress can require all
MS>school-age heads of households seeking AFDC to live with their parents.
MS>Congress can determine the income thresholds for welfare eligibility.)  
nd
MS>absent some kind of _constitutionally_-prohibited discrimination like 
racism
MS>sexism, it's allowed.
 
        In terms of denying the right of legally born U.S citizens to
attend school based on the non - citizenship of parents, how long is
that practice going to hold up?
        In Seward, we have the State's hardest prison( Spring Creek
Correctional Institution ).  Many of the convicts have their families
move to Seward, and guess who gets to teach them?  Why not place these
folks into the same classification as citizens with non - citizen
parents?
        In fact, what is to stop the government from going beyond
denying schooling to these folks?  How about the right to use the roads,
hospitols(public), electrical services, roads, police protection, right
to go to chruch, right of free speech,etc...?  Where is the line drawn?
 
Keep your stick on the Ice,
Paul
 
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