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Debunking the Perry Immigration Lie
townhall.com ^ | 9/25/11 | Kevin McCullough

Posted on 09/25/2011 1:57:43 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009

Maybe Mitt Romney doesn't realize that nearly all of the rest of children of illegals had no choice in whether to live in Texas or not. If they were brought there by parents who were illegal--how is that the child's fault? Is Romney ready to charge those children with crimes? Mass deportations? Even Romney has not pledged to go that far.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: completenonsense; immigration; perry; perry4illegals; perry4mexicans; rinoperry
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To: Sprite518
Please don’t ever disrespect yourself in a debate. I appreciate your honesty, but do not think for a second it will convince someone to listen to you. It will do just the opposite.

I appreciate your nice encouragement, but please accept my apologies if I was doing something to try to "convince" you or anyone else here.

I have tried to spend some time sharing some, as you called them even, honest feelings and even what I think is an honest situation in the state where I live. And it is encouraging that you mentioned a positive to understanding another side.

I wanted to let you know that "understanding" was all I really think I was wanting to do. I do not even know how I feel about what to do, how to handle it, and the more I see laws and legislation that blurs things, the more I realize there is so much more I don't even know or understand.

So I was not trying to convince but to open doors. (Now I did NOT say open borders, just open DOORS!) :)

Who knows, even some open doors might help us come a little closer to getting somewhere better than we are right now in the country.

But I was not trying to convince anyone, and if it came off that way in this thread, and I have indeed "done the opposite" ie turned people off, I apologize to any candidate I have hurt in the process, and I apologize for making anyone feel unworthy of their stand here.

Thank you for your sweet encouragement that I should re-take that IQ test. Perhaps I will when I'm in Heaven. I should get a perfect score then, whatever that is, and then I'll know that 40 wasn't worth fretting over to begin with.

Thanks for the good thought though.

141 posted on 09/25/2011 10:18:00 AM PDT by casinva (The stock in McDonalds has just gone down because Obama has been serving up so many whoppers.)
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To: org.whodat
And when you get done wishing and pushing amnesty, and fail, what then.

Then maybe you can write us all a new Constitution.

142 posted on 09/25/2011 10:19:27 AM PDT by casinva (The stock in McDonalds has just gone down because Obama has been serving up so many whoppers.)
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To: casinva

No I am happy with the current one, the one that does not have a provision allowing courts to spend tax payers money. And no provision to legislate from the bench. And no provision to make up things that are not contained in the documents. The ones conservatives support, That is the one you dislike.


143 posted on 09/25/2011 10:30:53 AM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrats.)
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To: cripplecreek; South40
PerryKrishnas, proving the worst about the theory of cognitive dissonance in less than a week.......

:-)

144 posted on 09/25/2011 10:34:49 AM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: wardaddy
it’s about them paying non resident tuition

Why does that matter so much to you?

They meet residency requirements as the law is written; they aren't taking anything from anyone else; they're not being subsidized.

It does seem that you prefer that they did not go to college at all as you are putting a large financial obstacle in their path.

So, why don't you want these kids going to college?

If your parents brought you out of Mexico or Central America, etc, and you lived in the US for at least 3 years, how bad do you want to leave and go back?

145 posted on 09/25/2011 10:55:23 AM PDT by Eagle Eye (Proud to be a RINO.)
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To: HarleyD

Tell us what YOU would do to “solve” the illegal immigration problem given the same constraints that the feds have put on the States?

Forget stopping them at the border. The feds say no.

Forget tracking expired visas. The feds say no.

Forget arresting them and deporting them. The feds say no.

You’re stuck with them, so what do you do?


146 posted on 09/25/2011 11:03:33 AM PDT by Eagle Eye (Proud to be a RINO.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
Then by all means, encourage your candidate to start rounding up the childern of illegals for mass deportation at the school house doors!

Sounds like a plan.

147 posted on 09/25/2011 11:56:39 AM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: org.whodat
That is the one you dislike.

I like the Constitution.

It's you I don't like.

148 posted on 09/25/2011 12:30:56 PM PDT by casinva (The stock in McDonalds has just gone down because Obama has been serving up so many whoppers.)
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To: casinva
Great!! I have zero respect for illegal coddlers like you.
149 posted on 09/25/2011 12:42:02 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrats.)
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To: Eagle Eye
So, why don't you want these kids going to college?

They can go to college in Mexico because they are Mexican citizens. They snuck in here along with their illegal alien parents and you want to reward this law breaking with cut rate college tuition

Deport a few thousand Mexican teenage hoodlum gangbangers who drain US society..... then I might listen to you on letting illegal aliens go to state universities and at bargain rates

150 posted on 09/25/2011 12:54:57 PM PDT by dennisw (nzt - works better if you're already smart)
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To: casinva

Your illegal alien darlings are also getting affirmative action preferences to enter Texas public universities ahead of white and Asian kids. So according to you and Rick Perry these illegal aliens should get the cheaper instate tuition rates, they should get scholarships plus they should jump to the ahead of the line in front of native Texans who happen to be white and just happen to pay a lot more of Texas taxes than do Hispanics and illegal immigrants and legal immigrants.


151 posted on 09/25/2011 1:22:12 PM PDT by dennisw (nzt - works better if you're already smart)
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To: Eagle Eye

Perry’s not running for governor; he’s running for President. His administratioin WILL be the ‘feds’ so he’s free to set any laws that he’ll be able to get through the House and Senate. But even with a conservative House and Senate, does anyone expect Perry to push for strict immigration reform? I have my doubts.


152 posted on 09/25/2011 1:55:47 PM PDT by HarleyD
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Here is what happens-—

Maria lives in Mexico and her son Jose is 14. She phones up her sister Betty who lives in Texas and says, “I hear Jose can get scholarships, affirmative action and stuff and only pay the instate rate on tuition like he is a real Texan. Betty can you take Jose in for a few years of high school until he goes to that fancy Texas college in Austin? I will send you money each month and tell everyone he is your son not mine”

So Jose is smuggled over the border and gets free high school education that the muy estupido Anglos pay for plus he gets bargain basement college tuition rates that the muy estupido Anglos pay for. Plus he scores affirmative action preferences and a Hispanics only scholarship like the kind the Bill Gates Foundation gives out.


153 posted on 09/25/2011 1:58:03 PM PDT by dennisw (nzt - works better if you're already smart)
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To: central_va

Ain’t that the truth? If they’d inflate the border patrol instead of the IRS, we could control the border. But they need to spend, so they need to find the fines and fees.


155 posted on 09/25/2011 3:28:33 PM PDT by hocndoc (http://WingRight.org I'm not afraid to use my mustard seed. 2 Control the border, Patrol the border!)
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To: Dusty Road
Once again it’s the responsibility of the Federal Government to protect our borders, not the states.

Tax payer dollars have been thrown to Perry time and time again...the question is what has he done with it?....I wouldn't blame any Pres. for refusing Perry...he will not close his border and as we know has no plans to. He simply wants it protected so he can carry out the agenda he desires there.....which includes the use of illegals and legals from Mexico. Cheap labor goes with his co-operate deals. So it's throwing money to the wind to expect Perry will close the border there....

156 posted on 09/25/2011 4:33:50 PM PDT by caww
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To: Dusty Road
educate them until their out of highschool and then do what with them?

How about send them back to Mexico and let them build their own nation into something they could be proud of....like any would even consider such.

157 posted on 09/25/2011 4:37:12 PM PDT by caww
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To: Dusty Road
What do you suggest (perry) he do?

Simple...Build a reliable fence....clean out the trash along the border....secure it by giving the Border Patrol the right to shoot when they come over. Done deal.

Wherever the fence is stable and strong the illegal infilitration been cut 90%.

158 posted on 09/25/2011 4:46:01 PM PDT by caww
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To: Dusty Road

simple ..... address what started this discussion; don’t subsidize tuition for illegals.

There, that wasn’t so hard.


159 posted on 09/25/2011 5:22:39 PM PDT by gnawbone
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To: Dusty Road

sheeeesh ..... what is with you Perry supporters? Your question what should we do with them after they graduate from H.S.; easy: Don’t give them a damned discount - that is what the “heartless” comment was about. Santorum challenged Perry on that and got no response.

Perry supporters: This is simple, pay out of state tuition.

If that is too confusing, I can’t help you, nobody can help you. You’re trying to complicate the issue. This all started with a challenge about in-state tuition, Perry went on some semi-coherent ramble about illegal children being drug kicking and screaming into Texas and so he wants to give them a discounted rate on tuition. Romney nor Santorum said he should deport them, they simply didn’t understand his position on in-state tuition .... and neither do I ... and apparently, neither do you.


160 posted on 09/25/2011 5:32:41 PM PDT by gnawbone
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