Perry and Texas took a bold and decisive stand on the issue - to educate EVERYONE at state tuition rates if they can pass the SAT or ACT. We already had to educate them from K-12 and had no choice in the matter.
People including hundreds here on FR need to think more practically and less with a beer mug and armchair reaction. This is real life for people in Texas. Both white and hispanic. Real life for real people. The failure of the federal government should not be placed on the backs of Texans who want all residents to succeed with an education. Including a college education if they can cut the mustard.
“Perry and Texas took a bold and decisive stand on the issue”
At the expense of American taxpayers and their rights. ILLEGAL as in not here LEGALLY. Bottom ;line. All the rest is just lipstick on a pig - laws that should not be.
The fact of the matter is that Texas did not cause the problem, Washington did. Texas is dealing with the problem the best they can under the circumstances. Perry is a brave man for standing up for his State and for these children without a country. He isn't going to make many friends on this forum. Oh well, there's always Sarah Palin (who probably feels the same way as Perry, but isn't running).
I know states were required to educate them. I'm saying it is WRONG to force American payers, at the point of a gun, to provide education, or anything else, to people who have broken our laws. This was/is WRONG, and being the Federal government and illegal immigrants get to pick the laws they'll go by, maybe the American people should too.
People including hundreds here on FR need to think more practically and less with a beer mug and armchair reaction. This is real life for people in Texas. Both white and hispanic. Real life for real people. The failure of the federal government should not be placed on the backs of Texans who want all residents to succeed with an education. Including a college education if they can cut the mustard.
Had the citizens of Texas, and other border states, been thinking more piratically, and used a little logic, the rest of the country could have been spared from this invasion. I say again, "It is irrational to educate people who can not legally work here." If the reason for looking the other way was because employers needed cheap labor, you only encourage more illegal immigration by educating illegal immigrants. You educate them out of, "jobs Americans won't do", into jobs Americans NEED, creating the NEED for more cheap labor. You also encourage more to come here illegally to receive a free education. I realize you've gotten use to it, but I don't want to live in Latin America.
It's disgusting how disrespectfully Americans have been treated over this issue. We have been betrayed by all branches of our government.
” This is real life for people in Texas. Both white and hispanic. Real life for real people”
It’s been “real life” in California for decades. It’s how we lost our State. Feel free to wreck Texas next if you insist.
Just don’t expect the rest of us to vote for the fools you elect who can’t get a handle on what “illegal alien” means.