Perry defends stance on Fed, immigration

Political Ticker - CNN ^ | 082011 | Shawna Shepherd

[Fred]

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As governor of the state that shares the largest border with Mexico, Perry defended his record on immigration, including his support for allowing illegal immigrants to get in-state tuition rates at Texas universities but opposing such a law on a national level.

"I'm a big believer in the 10th amendment," Perry said. "Whether they allow for tuition increases or decreases or whatever it might be in that state, it needs to be the states making that decisions."

Perry wouldn't wade into a national immigration reform debate, deferring to his position that those decisions should be made on the state level, "not by the federal government making one size-fits-all."

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[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

From your link: That’s why I support a guest worker program that takes undocumented workers off the black market and legitimizes their economic contributions without providing them citizenship status.

All of them? Is there any limit to the number of illegals who Perry would allow in this program? NOTE: Unemployment is painfully high.

Does Perry realize that they are not going to be satisfied with working here? "Now we are paying taxes." (A lot of workers don't pay any taxes, but that's what they will say.) "No taxation without representation." They would be back sooner or later asking for citizenship.

Do you have any of these concerns about Perry? Yes, I know he is not the only one who may be squishy on immigration.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” And what does “Secured” mean according to Perry?

Does it mean no more illegals coming across?

IF so, why doesn’t he want a fence or wall?

How come he is against E-Verify?

How come he is against AZ1070? “

How come? Because Perry is a FRAUD

[stephenjohnbanker]

E-Verify works great here in Arizona. That is why so many illegals packed up and left.

[Liz]

BUILDING A THIRD WORLD ON AMERICAN SOIL
Anti-Americanism Disguised as Ethnic Studies in Tucson Schools
Townhall.com | by Rachel Alexander
FR Posted on Monday, August 22, 2011 by Kaslin

The Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) is in a contentious fight with the state of Arizona over its controversial Mexican-American Studies program. A state law went into effect in Arizona on January 1, 2011, banning the teaching of ethnic studies in K-12 schools. It was prompted by an investigation into TUSD’s ethnic studies curriculum by Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne when he was State Superintendent of Schools.

The program is known as “raza studies,” which means race studies, championed by organizations like the far left organization National Council of La Raza. The course does not simply teach Latino youth about their heritage, it goes well beyond that. The textbooks teach Latino youth that they are mistreated by America, training them to become radical anti-American activists.

Textbooks include “The Pedagogy of the Oppressed” and “Occupied America.” Another text "gloats over the difficulties our country is having at enforcing its immigration laws." Benjamin Franklin is vilified as a racist. White people are referred to as “gringos” and “oppressors” of Latino people. “Privilege” is described as related to a person’s ethnicity.

At a TUSD school board meeting on May 10, one upset mother read excerpts from the textbook An Epic Poem: " My land is lost and stolen, My culture has been raped….we have to destroy capitalism…overthrow a government that has committed abuses….to the bloodsuckers, the parasites, the vampires who are the capitalists of the world: The schools are tools of the power structure that blind and sentence our youth to a life of confusion, and hypocrisy, one that preaches assimilation and practices institutional racism."

2009---TEXAS DREAM ACT DEMONSTRATION---not just education.

Conspiring to destroy the USA from within.

[cripplecreek]

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

” And what does “Secured” mean according to Perry?

Is Perry's definition different from Napolitano's, GWB's, and McCain's? Who knows.

[CowboyJay]

My goodness, where to even start with all the willful self-delusion here?

He means secured as in stopping illegals from coming across.

No. He means he'd like to make them all legal. Perry and his biggest financial supporters are rabid open-borders ideologues.

He is against a fence because it will not work - and many agree especially here in Texas. I agree also. It would be a huge expense to put up a 1200+ mile fence and it would be a waste of money.

Wrong. He's against a fence because he's taken alot of money over the years from other people who are against the fence.

Perry is adamant that it would take “Boots On The Ground” + high tech equipment like drones.

Wrong. Perry is using this either as a strawman that will never come to pass, or a backdoor corporate welfare handout to defense contractors that will use the technology to document all the people coming across, and then proceed to do nothing about it. Virtual fences don't work. Real walls do. Ask Israel.

E-Verify is a joke.

I've used E-Verify. It works just fine, and much better than the current I-9 requirement, which actually is a joke.

He was NOT against AZ1070 at all. He just felt like parts of it were not right for Texas. He did not want Texas State Patrol Officers becoming Border Agents. He said it would take away from the job they had to do.

Bullshit. This doesn't require any other response.

He was for the Sanctuary City Law this last legislative session but our law makers in Texas did not pass it. He put it back on the table for consideration when he called a special session and they again did not pass it. However, the photo id for driver license passed within the state budget but a Fed judge halted it. The one thing that did get through our legislature which he signed was a voter id - this eliminates illegals from voting in Texas.

More bullshit. He put it on the ledger to keep himself from being lynched, then did absolutely nothing to help get it through the legislature. What part of Rick Perry is a paid shill for the Open Borders Lobby do you not understand?

He is against Sanctuary Cities and Policies but much of that is the local city government. Again, he put the Sanctuary City law back on the table during the special session and our state gov did not pass it. There is only so much he can do, even as Governor of Texas.

And the State Police do not practice Sanctuary policies. They don’t do the job of the Border Police but if someone commits a crime and they think they are illegal - they will check their status.

His recent cynical pandering aside, there's nothing in Perry's personal history, governing philosophy, or donor list to even remotely support his assertions about being for a secure border or being against a blanket amnesty. He will be vetted and exposed as a fraud sometime between now and next November. I'd prefer sooner, so as not to hand re-election to Komrad Soetoro on a silver platter next fall. Next contender (pretender?) please. Watching McCain get carried off on a stretcher really wasn't enough for the RNC to have its come-to-Jesus moment on borders and immigration?

[cripplecreek]

Don’t suppose anyone caught the names of the Perry strategy team on FOX this morning.

Given their propensity to Obama style tactics I think they warrant some investigation.

[dragnet2]

Here's Perry last year, attending, giving speeches, and lending credence to La Raza, an organization which is 100 percent pro-amnesty, pro-illegal-immigration.

This all happened deep in the heart of Texas.

[GOPJ]

The program is known as “raza studies,” which means race studies, championed by organizations like the far left organization National Council of La Raza. The course does not simply teach Latino youth about their heritage, it goes well beyond that. The textbooks teach Latino youth that they are mistreated by America, training them to become radical anti-American activists.

Thanks for the ping...

[Liz]

Two peas in a pod.

[cripplecreek]

I don’t buy the excuse some are making that La Raza wasn’t happy with what he said. Just speaking at one of their events is the same as speaking at a bund meeting or klan rally.

[Tennessee Nana]

He means secured as in stopping illegals from coming across.
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No little grasshopper

Perry is for illegal aliens just watzing into the US and taking the place of your child and grandchild in the workplace and the college classroom..

and disenfranchising you all in the voting booth..

What is it you dont understand about the illegal alien problem we have in this country..

[Tennessee Nana]

He means secured as in stopping illegals from coming across.
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No little grasshopper

Perry is for illegal aliens just watzing into the US and taking the place of your child and grandchild in the workplace and the college classroom..

and disenfranchising you all in the voting booth..

What is it you dont understand about the illegal alien problem we have in this country..

[dragnet2]

Do you think Perry would show up and speak at an organization who demanded secured borders, government dramatically reduced in size and scope, English only laws, crack down and criminal penalties of employers that hire illegals, suspension of all immigration until the tens of millions of unemployed Americans and our economy are brought back from the brink?

[cripplecreek]

Do you think Perry would show up and speak at an organization who demanded secured borders, government dramatically reduced in size and scope, English only laws, crack down and criminal penalties of employers that hire illegals, suspension of all immigration until the tens of millions of unemployed Americans and our economy are brought back from the brink?

He should have been doing that years ago and he should have been backing it up while in office. Unfortunately he hasn't done either.

[LucyT]

Perry defends stance on Fed, immigration

BUILDING A THIRD WORLD ON AMERICAN SOIL

~Conspiring to destroy the USA from within.~

See # 7, and # 19 .

Then, check out # 84 .

Thanks, Liz.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Liz and South 40 have this Perry globalist cockroach N A I L E D

[South40]

Rick Perry has a very questionable record. This first part says it all.

"I think there is a path to citizenship for those young men and women ILLEGAL ALIENS who have served their country," Perry said.

THEIR COUNTRY?! When speaking of ILLEGAL ALIENS! Perry thinks America is THEIR COUNTRY?!
Perry wants to give ILLEGAL aliens citizenship

In 2001, Perry signed into law the very first Texas “Dream ACT.” It allowed the children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at any Texas university. Perry defended the Texas “Dream ACT,” saying, “To punish these young Texans for their parents' actions is not what America has always been about.”

Perry then jetted off to Mexico and bragged to the Mexicans that Texas passed this law, saying, “The message is simple, educacion es el futuro, y si se puede.” Education is the future, and yes we can.
Rick Perry’s immigration problem

In February 2007, Perry signed a shocking executive order forcing every sixth-grade girl to submit to a three-jab regimen of the Gardasil vaccine. He also forced state health officials to make the vaccine available "free" to girls ages 9 to 18. The drug, promoted by manufacturer Merck as an effective shield against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) and genital warts, as well as cervical cancer, had only been approved by the Food and Drug Administration eight months prior to Perry's edict.

Perry defenders pointed to a bogus "opt-out" provision in his mandate "to protect the right of parents to be the final authority on their children's health care." But requiring parents to seek the government's permission to keep an untested drug out of their kids' veins is a plain usurpation of their authority. Translation: Ask your bureaucratic overlord to determine if a Gardasil waiver is right for you.

Libertarians and social conservatives alike slammed Perry's reckless disregard for parental rights and individual liberty. The Republican-dominated legislature also balked. In May 2007, both chambers passed bills overturning the governor's unilaterally imposed health order.
Perry's vaccine order exposed lapse in political, policy judgments Rick Perry’s Superficial Extremism The Texas governor’s record doesn’t live up to his rhetoric.

“The Gardasil debacle is just one of many concerns a wide range of grass-roots conservative activists have about Perry’s record as governor. He’s soft on illegal immigration despite a few recent nods to border enforcement. He’s prone to crony capitalism. And as the vaccine mandate scandal shows, he demonstrated Nanny State tendencies that are anathema to Tea Party core principles.

Once again, the Perry campaign proves my point about the non-walkback-walkback. If Perry “erred on the side of life,” what his campaign continues to suggest is that those who opposed his Gardasil mandate from the beginning chose death. Instead of renouncing the human shield demagoguery he engaged it after the repeal, the Perry campaign has doubled-down. There is nothing — nothing — Tea Party about this.

The Gardasil debacle is a useful red flag on Perry’s basic political instincts, judgment, core values, and trust. It is no surprise — given his ties to Merck — that Perry is a consummate practitioner of corporate welfare “public-private partnerships.”
Plumbing the rest of the Perry record

Perry’s campaign website lists the Trans-Texas Corridor as one of his accomplishments. But is it something Perry really wants broadcast as an achievement? The Texas Republican Party’s 2010 platform includes a plank specifically opposing the Trans-Texas Corridor.
Rick Perry's NAFTA Superhighway Problem

VIDEO Perry compares Giuliani to Reagan

VIDEO: Perry thanked by Vicente Fox for illegals in-state tuition

Rick Perry has a very questionable past. But one thing is not in question and that is Rick Perry is NOT conservative!

[Liz]

In 2001, Perry signed into law the very first Texican “Dream ACT” to finance children of illegal immigrants for pay in-state tuition at any Texas university. Perry defended the Texican “Dream ACT,” saying, “To punish these young Texans for their parents' actions is not what America has always been about.” Perry then jetted off to Mexico and bragged to Mexicans that Texas passed the law, saying, “The message is simple, educacion es el futuro, y si se puede,” (education is the future, and yes we can).

Education for illegals? Which education, Senor Ricardo?

Anti-Americanism Disguised as Ethnic Studies in Tucson Schools
Townhall.com ^ | August 27, 2011 | Rachel Alexander
FR Posted on Monday, August 22, 2011 by Kaslin

The Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) is in a contentious fight with the state of Arizona over its controversial Mexican-American Studies program. A state law went into effect in Arizona on January 1, 2011, banning the teaching of ethnic studies in K-12 schools. It was prompted by an investigation into TUSD’s ethnic studies curriculum by Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne when he was State Superintendent of Schools.

The program is known as “raza studies,” which means race studies, championed by organizations like the far left organization National Council of La Raza. The course does not simply teach Latino youth about their heritage, it goes well beyond that. The textbooks teach Latino youth that they are mistreated by America, training them to become radical anti-American activists.

Textbooks include “The Pedagogy of the Oppressed” and “Occupied America.” Another text "gloats over the difficulties our country is having at enforcing its immigration laws." Benjamin Franklin is vilified as a racist. White people are referred to as “gringos” and “oppressors” of Latino people. “Privilege” is described as related to a person’s ethnicity.

At a TUSD school board meeting on May 10, one upset mother read excerpts from the textbook An Epic Poem: " My land is lost and stolen, My culture has been raped......we have to destroy capitalism…overthrow a government that has committed abuses….to the bloodsuckers, the parasites, the vampires who are the capitalists of the world: The schools are tools of the power structure that blind and sentence our youth to a life of confusion, and hypocrisy, one that preaches assimilation and practices institutional racism."--SNIP--

TEXICAN DREAM ACT DEMONSTRATION---2009

Did Senor Perrynista not know about this? Or was he taking a siesta?