Dept Of Education Ends Post-Secondary Education Funding for Illegal Aliens – Still Paying For K-12 Education

I thought we were getting rid of the Department of Education.  I guess not.  They are still funding education, albeit not post-secondary education, according to a new report.

Keep in mind that Americans didn’t even get that money.

Wait. Illegal immigrants got free college while me, as a combat veteran, has been told that I don’t qualify for the GI Bill due to my discharge even though I should be grandfathered in to the Bill (I paid into it pre 9-11).

Yea. Priorities, right.

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According to Jayden Jelso:

The Department of Education is ending a Clinton-era rule allowing illegal aliens access to federally funded tuition programs.

According to The Daily Caller, the Trump administration argues that the policy, which funds career, technical, and adult education programs, violates the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). The Education Department notified postsecondary education programs that the rule would no longer apply and declared that providers have “obligations to verify the eligibility of participants.”

This was one of several such moves the White House announced today. The Department of Health and Human Services “is restricting illegal aliens from 13 additional public programs, including Head Start, ”while the Labor Department “is barring illegal aliens from accessing federal workforce development resources and grants.”

The White House “fact sheet” alleges that this will save “roughly $40 billion in benefits for American citizens, overturns decades of bureaucratic defiance and builds on President Trump’s executive order directing an END to the subsidization of open borders.”

The Trump Education Department stated that the exemption “mischaracterized the law by creating artificial distinctions between federal benefit programs based upon the method of assistance.”

In line with PRWORA, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said if the federal government is going to fund postsecondary education programs, it “should benefit American citizens, not illegal aliens.”

Well, Mrs. McMahon, I don’t see where your job should even exist under our Constitution, let alone your authority, but after this why don’t we look at getting the federal government out of education completely since they were never authorized to be in it in the first place?  Think you might could do that and then cancel the entire department based on a lack of constitutional support for its existence?

Just so you know, the US does pay for illegal aliens to have K-12 education and a 1982 supreme Court ruling (Plyler v. Doe) prohibits the states from denying a free public education to children based on their immigration status. If you can believe it, there’s even a federal law the mandates all children have equal access to education, regardless of immigration status.  I just ask, where in Article I was the Congress authorized to make such a “law”?

Let’s quit hacking at the branches and start chopping at the root!

Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media

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