“It’s not about deporting kids...”
But it should be. This issue only comes up when the child wants to go to college at a state school — in other words, the “child” is no longer a child, but an 18 year old high school graduate who is now an adult choosing to break the law by living illegally in this country rather than returning to where they are actually citizens.
Perry and the legislature are wrong on this issue. They owed it to their taxpayers to take every opportunity to make life expensive and difficult for illegals, and certainly not spend any more tax dollars than absolutely required by the feds. Since the feds have tied the state’s hands on actual deportation, it is the state’s responsibility to encourage self-deportation. The feds require the state to provide K12 education to anybody who shows up, but it does not require in-state subsidized tuition rates, else out-of-state tuition rates themselves would be illegal. Hence the feds cannot be said to have forced TX hand and this failure of policy belongs solely to the TX legislature for passing it and Perry for failing to veto it.
Arguments that “they’re going to stay here anyway so we may as well educate them” makes as much sense as “they’re going to abuse drugs anyway so we may as well have government subsidize it.”
Here's one more example of "bighearted" Perry's suckup..... he is not only handing out in-state tuition to illegals, he put $7000.00 on their EBT cards---no questions asked.
(Snort) How easy it is to have a "heart" when you are using other people's money (tax dollars that buy votes, campaign contributions and re/election).
Americans are sick and tired of vote-crazed pols extorting tax dollars to giveaway to select voting blocs that the pols desperately needs to get re/elected.
Don't you just hate a politician with his heart in the right place?
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That steady stream of illegals pouring into Texas tells me native-born Texans don't have much say in Senor Ricky's unbroken string of re/elections. Senor Ricky gets away with mucho BS in Texas. Cattle country doesn't demand veracity...or much else...from its elected officials.
Perry's been described by some Texans as a kind of a Punxsutawney Phil. When it's time for election he's out there, saying and doing all the right things. After he's elected, he kind of disappears into his stump until it's time to wake up again.When he does that disappearing act, big-hearted Rick gets down to the real business of governance----enriching himself.
As one Texas FReeper posted: "I live in Texas. Perry’s an embarrassment......an arrogant jerk who thinks the rest of us are heartless if we don’t agree with giving tax dollars to Illegals.......rather than helping actual Americans."
By calling voters "heartless," Perry personally attacked, on national television, 81% of the American people. The inference was that only Perry was Truly Worthy (b/c he had sucked up to Mexico).
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Hmmmmmmmm...... conman Perry must have a real sweet deal with Mexico----in exchange for financing border-crossers with tax dollars. Betcha dollars to tacos----mucho of those EBT cardholder kickback to him, as well as being Perry voters.
Perry's tax-subsidized illegals are the voting blocs Mexico needs here to act as pressure points to tap into billions in US foreign aid.......AND "somebody" is getting a cut.
Making tuition-free K-12 education unavailable to illegals is the **COMPASSIONATE** action to take!!!! That needs to change, even if it means a Constitutional amendment for two reasons:
1) It would make coming to the U.S. far less attractive for those illegals who have children.
2) Having children wandering around during school hours would make these illegal parents and their children far more visible to the community and their likelihood of being detected and deported far greater.
My husband and I are fluent in Spanish. We were asked by our church leaders to help with the Spanish speaking congregation in our county. We have worked **closely** with this congregation for almost three years. This is what I have observed and **none** of it is compassionate:
— Reports of abandoned mothers and children in Mexico and in South and Central America.
—Bigamy when men marry other women here in the U.S. without divorcing their wives in their home country.
—Whole villages and town denuded of the most productive men between the ages of 16 and 50. ( Fewer women)
— Women and children in the home countries left **defenseless** against the predations of warlords and drug dealers.
— Economies of the home country wreck because their most intelligent, productive, and aggressive men are no longer in the country to build businesses and to demand honest government.
Many ( most) of the children in our congregation have never met a member of their extended family! No grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins. For most, there is never any hope that they will.