Opinion ID: 733323
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Public Schools

Text: 26 Finally, California argues that the Federal Government has violated the Tenth Amendment because the State must allocate funds to pay for the public education of alien children. We note that this argument is merely a variation of California's claim that the Tenth Amendment is violated when it expends funds to incarcerate illegal aliens. Again, California contends that the costs of educating alien children stems from the Federal Government's ineffective policing of national borders. We find California's argument unpersuasive. Because the State's obligation to provide this education derives from an independent constitutional obligation and not federal immigration policy, see Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202, 230, 102 S.Ct. 2382, 2401-02, 72 L.Ed.2d 786 (1982), the Tenth Amendment is not implicated. See Padavan 82 F.3d at 29 (reaching same result); New Jersey, 91 F.3d at 467 (reaching same result).