How would you feel if your mother sent you to live in the United States without legal documentation? Would you appreciate that she gave you an opportunity for a better life? Would you be angry with her for putting you in the position of now having to deal with being “illegal”? Explain.

What is most likely the speaker’s reason to open with this? in approaching this problem, we cannot turn the clock back to 1868, when the [fourteenth] amendment was adopted, or even to 1896, when plessy v. ferguson was written. we must consider public education in the light of its full development and its present place in american life throughout the nation. only in this way can it be determined if segregation in public schools deprives these plaintiffs of the equal protection of the laws.