Posted on 10/26/2011 12:34:55 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
But Texas IS the only state where Perry has been Governor and pushed this policy!
Does Texas give in-state tuition rates to all criminals, not just those that violate our border? If I were an out of state student who wanted to go to college in Texas (Lord knows why?) I would do better to go to Mexico, sneak across the border - then I could get the in-state tuition rates!
It is terrible policy, and it is a form of amnesty. All that can be said for Perry on this one is that a veto would have been utterly futile and the feds aren’t doing their job. Everyone of the these “scholars” should be deported back to their countries of origin. They have received enough stolen goods and services from the citizens of the US and Texas.
I have defended Perry on other threads and would vote for him, but this policy can only be defended by a corrupt form of sentimentality.
If it was put forth to be voted on by the CITIZENS of Texas, it would show that indeed the majority of us are against it. The legislature didn't ask us ... they went around us and passed it.
Perry supporters, like Perry himself desire to give Illegals that come here from Columbia to sell drugs a subsidized price on educating their kids. Much better than offering such to a Marine Corps combat veteran from Kentucky who wants to send his kids to a Texas university.
Perry and his sycophants will not remain unchallenged. His position and their position is what it is.
No state can simply enforce “English only” because of liberal court decisions. Or, perhaps we should and tell the feds to screw themselves.
We’re working on it. It absolutely is an election issue for state legistators. Many of the people who rammed it through were gotten rid of over their support for the TTC.
Thank you for playing.
You may want to remember that Perry is the guy who kills illegals who murders Americans in Texas while the rest of the Government cries and begs him not to.
Perry went from 30% to 6% in just a few weeks, after defending this bill. The people have spoken. If he continues to defend this nonsense he will be out of the race before the first primary. That he fails to recognize why this offends ordinary American citizens is just more evidence why he lacks the judgement to get the Republican nomination.
From reading the first 24 posts it seems that critics are Ok with illegals gong to college in Texas; they just want to charge them more.
I still hate it for the USA. And I won't vote for any politician who thinks any kind of incentive for illegal aliens at all is OK.
Its that simple.
That's -- I'm running for office, for Pete's sake, I can't have illegals. [video clip] -- Mitt Romney, GOP presidential debate - October 18, 2011 - Las Vegas, NV
Rudy Giuliani asked Mitt Romney the same question in the 2008 CNN debate that Rick Perry asked him during the CNN 2011 debate -- Mitt lost it both times.
Nov 28, 2008 CNN-YouTube Debate: Sound familiar? [LOOK who interrupts whom!!]
Funny Accent Mitt Romney, discussing reports illegal immigrants did landscaping at his home: It would "not be American" to check workers' papers simply because they have a "funny accent." [acknowledges need for giving health care and education to illegals]
Sound familiar? Mike Huckabee, replying to Romney's criticism of providing college scholarships to children of illegal immigrants: "In all due respect, we are a better country than to punish children for what their parents did."
At the same debate: John McCain: "We must recognize these are God's children as well. ... I will enforce the borders first. But we won't demagogue it."
This is the convoluted equivalent of saying "make the most of being raped". Honestly, you say you're against illegals and amnesty and then in the same damned breath say "make the best of it".....the fact that you call them students doesn't amount to a hill of beans - all I see are a bunch of trouble makers La Razing it up on Reconquista day at school ala California.
Sheesh! Stop with the justifications and weird rationalizations about illegals, tuition and amnesty. Your own laws as part of its implementation say "must commit to taking the steps to citizenship". You neglect that the very fact they are here is illegal, whether brought here or walking across the border on on their own two feet. That fact disqualifies them by current written law.
You'd be better off letting the tuition thing dying down and stop rationalizing. I think his tax plan is worth talking about more than his penchant for saying the rest of us don't have a heart.
Does the word principle mean anything to you?
It’s not that he isn’t rigorous on other aspects of the illegal infestation. It’s the fact that he said the rest of us don’t have a heart in the face of Texas’ capitulation that they can’t do anything about illegals already here. In effect Texas is paying ‘protection’ money to keep the illegals toned down. It’s not his fault that the Fed won’t round them up, but he doesn’t have to push his values on the rest of us in a national debate saying “we don’t have a heart.”
What an inconvenient statistic for the Perrywinkles!
From what I see of nationwide polling on the issue, that is fairly reflective of Americans as a whole.
Common sense tells us that if you put out more things to cater to illegal immigrants, you will get more illegal immigrants.
Given that Texas has a significantly higher Hispanic population than the rest of the nation, it would be wise to see why Texan opposition to perks for illegals is pretty much the same there as it is nationwide.
The only logical conclusion is that legal U.S. Citizens of Hispanic origin (the ideological descendants of those which also fought against Santa Ana at the Alamo) are even more opposed to perks for illegals than their Anglo counterparts. Ya think?
That he has apologized for and he said it in the context that the other option was to kick children (who broke the law because their parents made them) to the curb.
Was it a dumb thing to say? Hell yeah it was, but it does not define his immigration or border policy.
A Governor has to deal with the reality not desire. There are at least 1.1 million illegals here sucking up tax money and hurting his state, he has to play the cards he has not the cards he wants.
The ILLEGAL lovers who defend La Raza Ricky don’t know or have it I guess. These ILLEGAL criminals invading our nation and eating away at it’s foundation like a cancer must be stopped. From 30% down to 3% or 4% in a quick time following his calling us all “heartless” shows most Americans do not buy into Ricarrdo’s ILLEGAL loving plans for us no matter how hard he tries.
Hey, there’s been a ton of lies about Perry “open borders, forcing little girls to have sex shots, free tuition for illegals” etc. It takes time and money to correct these lies.
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