What does 3 years have to do with your friends? Military and dependents only need 6 months of declared residency if there was a year of residency in the past. If there wasn’t a year in the past, one year is required before they become resident.
Since Texas doesn’t have an income tax, I don’t understand why anyone here wouldn’t declare themselves a resident, especially if they had children who were soon to be in college.
The only thing that Governor Perry commented on was the very narrow exemption from non-resident tuition. The heartless comment came as he was attacked by several of the candidates over the law that only affects 17 or 18 year olds who are brought to the country before they’re 15, who are in our schools due to the Feds’ force on Texas, and who are assimilated in our culture enough to graduate from our high school and are accepted to our colleges.
Defend him all you can with a lot of words. Perry’s campain died over this issue. It is a loser to many. Obviously, others are fine with it.
Nevertheless, he is not tough on immigration.