Education Secretary Betsy DeVos set off a firestorm in her recent testimony before the House Education and the Workforce Committee.\u00a0 Her supposedly unpardonable offense?\u00a0 Saying that individual schools can decide whether to report illegal alien students to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).\u00a0 From the reaction that common-sense statement stirred up, you might think she was not only incorrect but some kind of monster.\u00a0 But she\u2019s absolutely right, although perhaps she might not even have gone far enough.<\/p>\n
She didn\u2019t say they should, let alone that they have to.\u00a0 She simply said<\/a>, \u201c[t]hat\u2019s a school decision.\u00a0 It\u2019s a local community decision.\u201d\u00a0 And within an instant, the illegal-alien lobby pounced on her.<\/p>\n They insisted she was just so obviously factually wrong<\/a>, and of course, that to even say such a thing was so fiendishly wicked that she should resign immediately<\/a>.\u00a0 The ACLU\u2019s Lorella Praeli sweepingly proclaimed that<\/a> \u201c[a]ny school that reports a child to ICE would violate the Constitution\u201d while Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-Arizona) ranted she was using children as \u201ccannon fodder.\u201d<\/p>\n Except despite their utterly predictable rhetoric of moral outrage, it\u2019s they, not she, who are just plain wrong about the actual law on the subject.<\/p>\n