Stephen Miller makes dramatic move aimed at rolling back Civil War gains: analysis
By Travis Gettys
Published March 28, 2026 4:20 PM ET
Stephen Miller is taking aim at the 14th Amendment by pushing the Texas state legislature to exclude undocumented immigrant children from public education, according to a new analysis.
President Donald Trump's key immigration adviser is looking to use the state's Republican legislative majority as a workaround to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Plyler v. Doe that found states must provide the same free public education to undocumented children as the children of legal immigrants, and New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie said Miller wants to test the current court's commitment to the precedent.
"The effect of this change, if it were to become law, would be to mark about a million children as members of a subordinate class — a lower caste excluded from mainstream society," Bouie wrote. "Miller’s push to weaken the equal protection clause raises an important question: Why is he, and the MAGA right more generally, so intent on whittling down the 14th Amendment to essentially nothing?"
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