The Thirteenth Amendment and Access to Education for Children of Undocumented Workers: A New Look at Plyler v. Doe

This Article highlights the economic and legal framework that has allowed a caste-like structure to be perpetuated where undocumented workers are exploited in order to do the work that economies demand, and to the extent that denial of education to the children of undocumented workers becomes part-and-parcel of this peculiar institution, the Thirteenth Amendment should prohibit it.