(WASHINGTON TIMES) Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that all schools must enroll students whose parents are illegal immigrants, citing “troubling reports” that some districts are discriminating against children of undocumented parents.
“Public school districts have an obligation to enroll students regardless of immigration status and without discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin,” Mr. Holder said in a statement released by the Justice Department. He said his department will do “everything it can” to make sure schools meet this obligation.
Mr. Holder was joined by Education Secretary Arne Duncan in issuing new guidance to school administrators, telling them to be more flexible in accepting some documents from illegal parents and not to require others that may prove a child’s age and residence.