Oh, gross. Bachmann is running radio ads tomorrow telling a whopper about Perry. Saying “Rick Perry signed a law to make taxpayers pay college tuition for illegal immigrants.” She's perpetuating that lie that illegals get FREE tuition.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/09/12/bachmann-group-attacks-perry-on-immigration/?mod=google_news_blog
“Oh, gross. Bachmann is running radio ads tomorrow telling a whopper about Perry. Saying “Rick Perry signed a law to make taxpayers pay college tuition for illegal immigrants.” She's perpetuating that lie that illegals get FREE tuition.”
Actually, Bachmann is mostly correct. As you may remember from a few night's back, the tuition at Texas A&M is about $9k for instate residents and about $23k for non-residents so Texas taxpayers are subsidizing every illegal at A&M about $14k annually (or about 60%) and a similar amount at all other state schools.