U.S. states can’t bar immigrant children – no matter their status – from attending public school. The Supreme Court said so in 1982. A growing chorus of Republicans wants to overturn that decision. Bills in state legislatures over the past year have unsuccessfully aimed to collect data on immigrant students without legal status or charge them tuition. Passing that sort of legislation could put the issue back in front of the Supreme Court someday. “It’s time for it to go,” Rep. Chip Roy, who’s also running in the Republican primary for Texas attorney general, said of the court ruling during a congressional hearing in March. “Any amount of illegal immigration in our hospitals, jails, schools, or elsewhere should not be tolerated. ... States should have the ability to curb it.” Why We Wrote This The Supreme Court guaranteed immigrant children’s access to public education regardless of immigration status in Plyler v. Doe.…