On Monday, Russell Pearce, Arizona state senate president and the author of SB1070, proposed a bill that would deny children of undocumented immigrants the right to attend K-12 public schools in the state. The measure would turn school administrators into de facto immigration enforcement agents by asking them to turn over families that did not provide citizenship or legal resident papers.

The bill, SB1611, seems bound for challenges over its constitutionality, as it runs up against the Supreme Court’s 1982 decision in Plyler v. Doe, which explicitly prohibits states from discriminating against young students for their immigration status.

“They’re trying to create tests. This is all aiming for Supreme Court test cases by doing something that is over the constitutional line,” Gabriel Chin, a professor at the University of Arizona School of Law, told HuffPost. “The problem is that all of these people have taken an oath to support the constitutions of the United States and Arizona. It’s really alarming and astonishing that they would deliberately violate the Constitution in this way.”

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