What about the vaunted 10th Amendment?
Education is a state issue. Period.
The 77th Texas Legislature passed that bill with a veto-proof majority. It would not have mattered if Perry choose not to sign it. That he did merely illustrates that he did not have national office in mind at the time.
BTW, many other states beside Texas have the same residency language.
Do you really fail to comprehend the concept that it ceases to be a state issue when a man who advocates for such a thing seeks national office?
There is a federal law prohibiting giving instate tuition to ILLEGAL aliens. La Raza Rick and the Texas legislature discovered a way of circumventing that law by making the requirement 3-years of high school as opposed to residing within the state. Americans don't like that. I know because I am one.
The 77th Texas Legislature passed that bill with a veto-proof majority. It would not have mattered if Perry choose not to sign it. That he did merely illustrates that he did not have national office in mind at the time.
I've said this before but I guess you didn't read it. It doesn't matter that it was a veto-proof majority; Perry signed it BECAUSE HE SUPPORTED IT THEN AND HE SUPPORTS IT STILL. It's not the fact that the Texas legislature approved it with a veto proof majority that bothers Americans. What bothers them is Perry advocated for it then and does to this day.
BTW, many other states beside Texas have the same residency language.
A fact that has absolutely ZERO bearing on this debate. But for the record, if any govrnor had signed a similar bill (mine did, and he is a liberal jackass) that man would NOT deserve or get the support of the very same people who do not support Perry.