With Rick Perry in TX, you got to wonder what the figure is there $600 mil?
We spend more than that every year to educate the children of illegal aliens, forced by the Federal government.
In spite of $400 million in the last few years to supplement the Feds’ border security, nearly that much in a year to keep illegal aliens who’ve broken other laws in jail.
The Feds still don’t allow enough border agents to make sure they can respond when we’re invaded.
The Feds bring busloads of illegals they caught in Arizona and let them go at small town Texas border crossings.
The Obama administration just dumped nearly **400,000** deportation cases in the last year, hundreds in Houston, who knows how many in Dallas, San Antonio, etc.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-09-10-immigration10_ST_N.htm
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Feds-moving-to-dismiss-some-deportation-cases-1706119.php
And they lied about it to cover it up:
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Report-Feds-downplayed-ICE-case-dismissals-2080532.php#page-1
Why are we having deportation *hearings* in the first place?
It’s not the Governor’s job, it’s the Feds’ job. He’s spurred on increased border security.
“With Rick Perry in TX, you got to wonder what the figure is there $600 mil?”
This gets old. You know, it seems by now, intelligent people would stop bashing Rick Perry for managing our state’s illegal entry population in the best way we can. Illegals are here. They are in every state in the union . They are a problem for every state in the union because the federal government has failed miserably. Not every governor is running for president but every governor oversees the same problem in his/her state. The costs are overwhelming for every state. Ours are larger because we are vulnerable to illegal entry from California, Arizona, and New Mexico....not to mention our own border towns. Every governor tries to do something effective but they get screwed by the Feds. I’m sick of Perry being accused of embracing illegals by giving them free subsidies for college. It’s not true. He has NEVER supported illegal immigration. Critics act like people sneaking across the border via the deserts or in the trunks of cars or thru sewers and tunnels are all headed to Texas for college tuition. The facts are, a college-bound student must pass entrance exams just as any student does. They must have spent the previous three years in Texas. They must have graduated from a Texas high school. And they must be accepted to an institute of higher learning....and then they are permitted to pay tuition in the same manner as their fellow students inTexas. Anyone who thinks Texans would stand by and pay tuition for their own kids while illegals attend free is missing a key part of their brain. Our whole country is in trouble. Finally, governors are stepping forward and admitting it. In the end, Perry and the Texas legislature will be the example for how to problem solve. I haven’t heard a definitive solution from Mr Romney. Mr Cain’s solution is to let them fry on an electrified fence? Sorry, but the people who would be fried are not the people who are begging for in-state tuition. What’s your solution to the whole invasion problem?
“With Rick Perry in TX, you got to wonder what the figure is there $600 mil?”
True; all politicians are afraid of being painted as “mean-spirited”, and no action is taken. The only thing that will change this game is the millions of unemployed Americans now needing the same assistance that has been enjoyed for decades by illegal aliens and our permanent underclass.