The Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits states from denying a free public education to immigrant children even if they or their parents are undocumented. In other words, the Court decreed that all children residing in the United States have the right to a free public education without regard to their own or their parents' legal status as immigrants. Further, the Court emphatically declared that school systems are not agents for enforcing immigration law and therefore are forbidden to make public any information about the legal status of their students, or to inform other agencies about such status.
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