Posted on 08/25/2011 6:57:15 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
If they don't change their approach and thinking about illegal immigration, it will, indeed, be Cali.
Our major ruination is due to having to pay for all the illegals pouring into our state and using our services....for free!
NPR? NPR? you gotta be kidding me. I would call this a positive view. But from NPR? How did it sneak thru?
ALL the LIBERAL social justice, social engineering give-aways that have been drawing people here -- and Texas has 1250 miles to secure along an INTERNATIONAL border that WE have to protect as the Feds won't (they want the votes).
Texas just got Voter Photo ID passed by the Dept. of Justice (Eric Holder) is LOOKING it over and will let Texas know if we can use it.
Reprint of Weekly Standard piece.
Perry is big on rolling back regulations. Californians can relate to that!
This is how you "create" jobs -- you create an environment that is friendly to employers!
Rick Perry:
FIRST: "Don't spend all the money!"
SECOND: "Have a fair and predictable tax and regulatory policy!"
THIRD: "Have a legal system that doesn't allow for over suing and make loser pay!"
typo: “BUT the Dept. of Justice (Eric Holder) is LOOKING it over”
I agree. It speaks to your heart — makes you a better person.
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I live in a 2300 sq ft 4 bedroom home on a quarter acre lot in Plano Texas with a pool which I bought at the height of the market for 183,000. The registration on my 3 vehicles (2 trucks and an SUV) cost about 150 bucks all together.
He did real good!
And wouldn’t you know it, the RAIN started just as he began the segment with Laura. There was so much static on the radio I had to get her show over the Internet to hear it.
Perry is NOT GOING to apologize for AMERICA or give away the farm (my quick take on the interview).
It’s just POURING in Houston.
Glad we agree.....allowing people to take advantage of our programs by pouring over our borders illegally is most definitely a Liberal trait!
But its under the ‘imprimatur’ of NPR? It is on an NPR website. Is it possible?
Yep, NPR, the ones that didn't think Juan Williams was liberal enough for them!
Says a lot!
That’s what Perry says too and why it will take a secure border and strong Conservative ascendancy, not a fence, to change this.
NPR is watching CA die.
You realize that makes no sense, don't you? How can one secure the border without a fence?
I will point out that there are already laws on the books to "secure" the border but, they are useless. Illegals do NOT pay attention to laws. We need to keep them from entering and make it unpleasant and not lucrative to be here.
If they want to get here they will, fence or no fence (the logistics of such a thing along our border is not practical and there are better ways).
I understand how you see it. I see it differently.
Also: (if you've already seen it, sorry to be repetitive).
We've been dealt a hand here in Texas (and if you've read my threads you know much of this) where we have a federal government that has not answered the call to protect the 1250 border miles Texas shares with Mexico. Gov. Perry does not believe a fence is the answer to illegals crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. He believes conservative ascendancy will. So we do the best with what we have ($100M/yr of our own state money put up to help secure an international border). We have a lot of crime to combat and pay for because of the illegal activity (drugs, human smuggling and trafficking) generated by an unsecured international border.
We can't refuse to educate or give health care, as everyone in every state is faced with the same situation, but since Perry is a border gov, he's held responsible for illegal aliens, where everyone vents their frustration about the problem using him as a whipping boy (and to make political points and take pot shots). Perry's asked for drones (went to Israel and asked how they protect Gaza Strip), has asked for 3000 people here on the TX border (crickets). Perry has set up an elite Texas Ranger unit to work on the border. Then we find out the Feds have been "running guns" across the border and we've had people killed because of that.
The Texas Dream Act was set up because we have a lot of kids here from the way the feds have allowed this to snowball. Students who have been in Texas for 3 years and graduated from a Texas high school get instate tuition (no benefits -- they pay their way) The entire Texas Senate voted for this in 2001. (The Texas Dream Act does NOT have all the hidden goodies the U.S. Congress "Dream Act" was trying to get into law.)
Perry has said: “If you show up illegally, without your card or you’re here as a criminal element, I’m for throwing the book at those folks, but the issue of people who want to legally, thoughtfully and appropriately come to America to work and help us build our economy — we should quickly come up with a program and an identification card to do that.”
The Texas legislature meets every 2 years for 140 days and the governor is allowed to call Special Sessions. He called a Special Session because he had put "sanctuary cities" on the agenda and the legislature dropped the ball -- but the Senate and then the House left again -- giving Gov. Perry nothing to sign (Texas legislators also have elections they'll be facing and no doubt didn't want a vote on this shadowing their re-election bids).
In this just ended session, after about 3 tries to slip it into a bill, a law that required people to show their birth certificate to get a drivers license got through [The amendment, added by Rep. Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, to the education funding bill legislators needed to balance the state budget had originally been included in Senate Bill 9, the so-called "sanctuary cities" bill that failed in the special session. It also had appeared in an omnibus homeland security bill by Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, that died in the regular session......By putting it into law the state potentially undermines an ongoing lawsuit that argues DPS doesn't have authority to check legal status.]. However, the ink on that law was barely dry before it was overturned by a judge – as usual.
In this last Texas Legislative session Gov. Perry signed the Texas Photo ID Voting Law -- it took 6 years to get it through -- Only 6 states have a PHOTO Voter ID requirement.
Texas has a long history with Mexico and being "Mexican" does not mean that you aren't an American, or a Texan. A lot of Texans have Mexican heritage or are married to someone who does. Perry doesn't lead with his chin. He's a thoughtful man.
Rick Perry is as ready to fix this as anyone and understands it probably better than anyone running -- or commenting anonymously on a chat site.
I would normally say that I hope the rain lets up for you soon, but with you being in TX, I hope you all get a nice soaking!
I was following along Twitter and liked some of the comments Perry made on her show.
Ingraham: “Will you promise to never vacation on Martha’s Vineyard?” Perry: “I’m not even sure I know where it is...”
Perry to Ingraham: “I dislike Washington. It’s a seedy place... But I’m not going to sit on the sideline & watch my country be destroyed.”
1 hour ago Favorite
IngrahamAngle Laura Ingraham
@GovernorPerry says Arne Duncan flat out wrong when it comes to his comments on Texas’ education system.
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