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Immigrants And Education
Many years ago, when the United States was a very young country, there was no such things as public education. Today every American child is entitled to free education until the age of 16, and this law has been extended to the children of undocumented immigrants as well. Some Americans say that public education should not be provided for the children of undocumented immigrants because that only encourages more illegal immigrants to come to the
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