Posted on 09/28/2011 7:08:25 AM PDT by hocndoc
flipped because we the Texas voters fired a lot of the RINOs and indeed a lot of the Democrats who were for this and scared the crap out of the remainder.
Yes! We did the same in Louisiana! Immigration is just one of the issues but we started taking Pelosi’s advice and are “draining the swamp”. The last “illustrious political leader” to go will be Mary Landrieu in 2014 (I believe). Louisiana, a notorious blue state has become scarlet! Other than her all our state rep including our governer are conservative republicans.
These are really exceptions to the requirement for non-resident tuition. Also in the Bill are exceptions for people who live in counties in other States that lie along the border with Texas, for residents of Mexico who go to certain universities and demonstrate need, veterans, military personnel and their dependents and other groups.
http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/ED/htm/ED.54.htm#54.058
He’s not kidding about the Ranger Interdiction Team. We live in the Valley and from whatever point A is - point B - before they fly the Black Hawks low over the river is our roof. Perry and his team are all that stands between us and being over run by the cartels, and we surely appreciate that.
Your mistake is trying to reason with people who approach politics and public policy as if they are the NFL Game of the Week. Perry has many pros and some cons, but the average Freeper seems to be incapable of anything more than cheerleading for his current favorite candidate and trash talking everyone else.
The truth is that all the candidates have some negatives of consequence. On balance, however, any of them would be better than Obamalini, and we are serving the cause of replacing Wonder Boy poorly when we savage candidates other than our favorite candidate without any real knowledge or sense of balance. I could easily support Cain, Perry, Bachmann, Palin, or Santorum, and I could even support RP or Newt if either were the nominee (Neither will be).
What we don’t need is to let childish partisanship cripple our potential candidates. That only serves Obamalini.
However, the author lists a group of men and women who are our most conservative and who are still in office, sometimes in higher office.
Pro or Con this issue wouldn’t have to be debated if the Federal Gov’t would do its job on the borders. There wouldn’t even be a need to provide education at the lower levels of elementary and high school either.
Well I guess that makes us “Heartless” conservatives just plain wrong!
The votes of a bunch of “conservative” GOP congress people must mean by extension, that that is the conservative position, right?
“How do you become a “Texas resident” if you are an illegal?”
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It’s a pretty easy step by step process.
1. Float on inner tube across Rio Grande.
2. Evade Border Patrol.
3. Squeeze into 12 passenger van with 25 other invaders.
4. Ride to DFW Mexoplex and apply for a job at the fast food restaurant where the coyote dumps you out.
5. Go to emergency room at Parkland Hospital to get your TB treated for free.
6. Go to work. Cough on food.
7. Drive around without license or liability insurance.
8. Attend amnesty rally. Wave Me-hee-can flag.
9. Get drunk at “after rally fiesta”. Go wrong way on freeway and kill U.S. citizen.
The “Reps” are not trying to overturn this law - our Representatives are not in Session for another year and a half (thank the Lord, they only meet 120 days, every two years), and none of them introduced a Bill to overturn it in the last Session (January to May, 2011).
One bill came up in the Senate (Birdwell) in this year, but never even made it to a hearing in committee.
Although the illegals are still getting in-state tuition in Maryland the way they always have — because they don’t check for citizenship status.
The law was merely to codify and legalize a situation that is already widespread. If you don’t pass a law banning the practice, the illegals will get in. That’s why states actually pass laws requiring schools to check legal status. If a state doesn’t have a law requiring a check of legal status in the country in order to qualify, it is likely that illegals are getting in-state tuition.
Policies that may make sense for a border state trying to deal with a crisis created by federal unwillingness to enforce its laws may not make sense as federal policies.
I’m unclear why Perry felt it necessary to defend this policy with the implication that it would be appropriate for the nation as a whole.
States are supposed to do things that work just for them. That’s the whole point of federalism.
Yeah! That's why they immediately revoked it, right? Oh wait.........
When you reward illegal behavior with such things as in-state tuition or sanctuary cities, you get more of it. There are only 6,000 ICE agents. It is essential that state and local enforcement cooperate with the Feds in the enforcement of our immigration laws just like they do with kidnapping, bank robbery, counterfeiting, etc. The Secure Communities and 287 g programs are supposed to foster that cooperation.
Perry has not been a supporter of E-Verify even for state employees. We need to cut off the job magnet. Perry is just pandering to Hispanics who comprise 37.6% of the population of Texas and the Chamber of Commerce. Illegals make up 9% of the work force.
Is it groundhog day again?
By living there.....From Webster:Definition of RESIDENT
1a : living in a place for some length of time : residing
How do you give in-state tuition to the nation as a whole?
When you secure the border you can then take care of the rest of the problem. Until the border is secure the other problems will only be exacerbated.
The coyote that Perry shot would still be alive if he had been driving a van full of wet Mexicans.
What "crisis" does the "dream act" apply to. It seems it just gives money to illegal aliens from another country for college. Was the "crisis" that the illegal aliens didn't have enough money for college? Is it a "crisis" if a U.S. citizen from another state doesn't have enough money for college? Is it better to be here illegally from another country than legally from another state?
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