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The Right-Wing Dream of ‘Self-Deportation’ | Some conservatives have a grim proposal to make undocumented immigrants leave: Exclude their children from schools.

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This is exceptionally cruel, and condemns kids (many of whom are US citizens) to a lifetime of poverty.

A similar measure in California passed a generation ago, was struck down by the courts, and helped usher in an era where the Republican party in the state is permanently in the minority.

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