On Immigration, Rick Perry Takes Heat for Texas DREAM Act

Los Angeles Times ^ | Sept. 12, 2011

[T.L.Sink]

Your argument is the same rationalization (excuse?) that Perry has used: The federal government won’t enforce feseral law so as long as they’re here (illegally) let’s let them horn in on all the benefits that citizens are being taxed billions of dollars for - education in the public schools, medical care in already insolvent hospitals, social welfare benefits, escalating costs for prison incarceration, etc. This is specious reasoning and just compounds a problem which is already out-of-control. Employers who ILLEGALLY employ illegal aliens are no less guilty than a state which gives them public funds such as tutition benefits. The assumption that we should reward criminals in the hope that they will become “upwardly mobile” is inimical to even the most rudimentary concept of American jurisprudence. But when it brings votes, who cares?
Article.IV., Section.4., U.S. Constitution:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall PROTECT EACH OF THEM AGAINST INVASION.

The reasoning of the amnestyites and open-borders crowd is that since we’re not enforcing federal law and our own constitution, then let’s let the illegals pour in, give them benefits, and add to the debt of an already bankrupt nation! After all, some might become ‘upwardly mobile.’ Not to mention the facts which involve the declining quality of life in America. “Civilizations don’t dies from murder, but by suicide.” - Arnold Toynbee

[SaraJohnson]

I totally agree with you. But you also need to understand Texas in relation to Mexico.

What happens in Texas to people with a conscience is this: They live with Mexico. It is our border state like Ohio is to Kentucky - without the official constitutional designation. If you are “rich” in Texas - rich is relative in this statement - you go over to Mexico and what do you see?

Honest to God, when I was a child and went to Mexico to “shop” with my family (my dad was an officer in the Navy) all of my shopping money was gone before I left the parking area. To see beggars - not like America's healthy shakedown beggars - but people with children who had festering wounds on their amputated stumps and with every bone in their body protruding from starvation because they could not work, begging for food, it was the sight of suffering that was unbearable. So at twelve, I never arrived at the Mexican shopping area on the border with the money my dad gave me for spending on myself because I gave it all away on the way there. I gave away the meals my dad bought for me while we were in Mexico at American designated safe resturants, on the way out.

This is what the elite of Texas deal with. It is what the rest of the country does not understand about Mexico. In fact, it has gotten worse in Mexico. Now they have tortured and mutilated bodies hanging from bridges. And Hamas is part of the glory.

Right or wrong...this is what is real in Texas. No excuses to Perry for screwing up in giving illegals in-state tution, but maybe you understand what Texas governors are dealing with, even while you don't approve. I don't approve and yet, I do understand.

Being who I am, I advocate for the US to take over Mexico and be done with this evil crap. We could use the land and the resources to go with all the people who have had to flee from Mexico's dark horror and oppression. Perry might do that as the cartels move into the US and express themselves. Obama and his friend across the aisle McCain, will accommodate them in hanging us from bridges. Perry, if he's like me, hates the ruling class of Mexico for what they do to their “masses.”

The amoral will make us all slaves of socialist oligarchy like we see in Mexico.