That group has very few members (if any) who are in the country illegally.
-- This law passed both Texas legislative bodies with almost zero opposition. --
I fully support assigning blame to the legislatures, when the item in question was passed into law by a legislature. But using this standard also affects how one approaches Romneycare, also passed by a state legislature.
And in the Texas DREAM Act, the state is endorsing (at least pretending to look the other way) an alien staying in the country illegally.
Not at all.
I’m tired of discussing this with people who don’t get it even after it is clearly explained to them.
The so called Dream Act is nothing of the sort, really. It means that people will not be investigated for possibly being illegal in order to deny them in state tuition, because everyone is treated the same, if you attend a high school for 3 years and graduate, you will be considered in state, not out of state. You need to get it, once and for all, that without this law, millions of Hispanics could potentially be investigated, simply because they wanted to attend college, on suspicion of being illegal simply because they are Hispanics.
My point about the military tradition of Texas Hispanics is lost on you, obviously.
My point is that those families have been here for generations and it would be a bad thing to be investigated if you were one of them, and so patriotic your families had always served in the military, but you graduate high school and are investigated as a possible illegal because you are Hispanic.
Without the law, which applies to everyone no matter any other considerations, that would always be hanging over people of Hispanic decent in Texas. And in Texas there are so many who are as American and as Texan as I am, who are Hispanics, which I am not. But the ignoramuses throughout the rest of this country look at every one of them as a likely illegal.
And I won’t suffer ignoramuses gladly.
My point about the vote in the TX legislative bodies is that it was so overwhelming, it proves the support was there for this across the board and it is stupid to pretend that it happened because of Rick Perry supposedly being a RINO.
Yes, I said it, stupid and asinine as well.
“state is endorsing (at least pretending to look the other way) an alien staying in the country illegally.”
correction: state is endorsing a child of an illegal who grew up in the state.
The child who was brought over by his or her illegal parents has committed NO CRIME.
Your hung up on an issue that effects 8K to 12K individual kids who are 18 years old.
THAT is what is stopping you from voting for a good solid Republican that can beat Obama.