S. citizens. Given the occasion to get supplementary education and obtain better paying employment, undocumented students would contribute more taxes and have more money to invest in the country (Undocumented Students Face Barriers to Higher Education, 2009). The studies challenge that immigration and educational policies should not be universal. Kids make up almost two million, or fifteen percent of the undocumented immigrants in the nation. They have had no voice in their parents' choice to come to and stay in the U.S. illegally but are nonetheless paying the penalty. They may work hard in grade school and high school, only to find the door to higher education blocked to them. The report also says that K-12 education mandated by the Supreme Court in 1982 is for not if the U.S. persists in making...

citizens. In Texas, the Higher Education Coordinating Board established that in 2004, three years following the Legislature passed in-state tuition for undocumented students, 3,792 attended Texas colleges and universities. This was an increase of ten times. Nonetheless, such students accounted for only 0.36% of the one million students going to public colleges and universities in Texas. According to the Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board, 542 alleged undocumented students went to public colleges and universities throughout the 2007-2008 academic years. In contrast, there were about 430,000 students going to public colleges and universities in the state (Undocumented Students Face Barriers to Higher Education, 2009).