A governor has no power to deport. He can only make the best of a bad situation. Perry does not support illegal immigration. He calls for strong enforcement of immigration policies.
Then why does he allow about a dozen or was it 13 sanctury cities in TX? He can’t do anything about them? Or instate tuition for illegals?
Maybe so but conservatives heard his line about having a heart as W Bush’s “compassionate conservative” which meant that he would sell out the USA to the Mexicans.
Why is Perry in favor or rewarding illegal behavior? It is pure political pandering in the hope that you can get a significant portion of the Hispanic vote. According to the Pew Hispanic Center for 2010, there are 9.5 million Hispanics in Texas, second largest in the nation after CA. It amounts to 37.6% of the total population second only to NM with 46.3%. In 2000, the numbers for Texas were 6.7 million and 32%.
The Hispanic population in Texas for children under 18 is 2.4 million or 48.3% of the child population under 18 up from the 41% in 2000.
According to Pew, there are 1.5 million to 1.9 million illegal aliens in Texas (2010). There are an estimated 1.1 million illegal aliens in the Texas workforce or 9% of the total workforce. By comaparison, the estimated number of illegal aliens in Texas in 1990 was 450,000 and in 2000, 1.1 million. Do you think that Perry's welcoming policy for illegals is contributing to these numbers?
In the decade from 2000 to 2010, the Mexican-American population grew by 7.2 million as a result of births and 4.2 million as a result of new immigrant arrivals. At 31.8 million in 2010, Mexican-Americans comprise 63% of the U.S. Hispanic population and 10% of the total U.S. population (Ennis, Ríos-Vargas and Albert, 2011).
According to Pew Hispanic Center tabulations from the March 2010 U.S. Current Population Survey, 39% of Mexican-Americans—or 12.4 million—are immigrants. With the exception of Russia, no other country in the world has as many immigrants from all countries as the U.S. has from Mexico alone. Nor does any country in the world have as many citizens living abroad as does Mexico. According to the World Bank (2011), more than 10% of Mexico’s native-born population lives elsewhere, with the vast majority (97%) of these expatriates living in the United States.