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Posted on 09/27/2011 7:57:53 PM PDT by Clairity
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is a radical who encourages illegal immigration.
Really?
That incendiary line of attack in the free-for-all among Republican presidential hopefuls begs for a deep breath and a dose of rational reflection.
Since 2001, Texas has allowed students to qualify for in-state college tuition if they've lived in the state for three years leading to high school graduation, completed their studies for a diploma or a GED, and enrolled at a public higher education institution.
Citizens, legal residents and other immigrants can get lower rates under the law. Students who meet the criteria but aren't U.S. citizens yet must file a statement that they intend to seek legal status.
The policy, which won widespread support in the Legislature before getting Perry's signature, has moral, practical and financial dimensions.
Support has come from the influential Texas Association of Business and chambers of commerce, as well as educators, the Texas Catholic Conference and civil libertarians.
In 2009, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott upheld the law. This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court also rejected a challenge to a similar law in California.
(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...
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Yeah, Texas is different. We can put up a much shorter fence just cutting you guys off on the North.
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Students who meet the criteria but aren’t U.S. citizens yet must file a statement that they intend to seek legal status.
Students who are here illegally should be deported and sent to the back of the line, not given a college education.
We’ll become THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS again...and cut the north off. We are #13 in the world with our economy...to hell with the other states you can go suck eggs.
Christie got a huge round of applause at the Reagan Library tonight when he came out against subsidized tuition for illegals and said that did not make him heartless.
I object to the tuition break for illegals, but that is not what makes him an immigration “radical” in my mind.
What makes him an immigration radical in my mind is:
1) His desire to take the illegals working here now and legalize them by calling them “guest workers”
2) His unwillingness to even consider fencing as part of a border security strategy except in very, very limited areas. His additional boots on the ground are very much needed but would be made much more effective combined with fencing.
3) His liberal instinct by instead of arguing his position on the merits, he demonizes law-and-order conservatives as “divisive” and “anti-immigrant” and people who “have no heart” and who “don’t like the sound of their last names”.
Oh illegals must file a statement. Well then that makes crapping all over the rule of law Ok. After all illegal aliens never lie and they always follow the law.
I can understand why liberals are so stupid but it is endlessly frustrating to see people that should know better be so damn naive....Freepers no less.
Oh, you mean cheap labor... well then, alls well...
He is simply too heartless to understand the plight of American citizens, or he doesn’t care.
Of course he cares. He knows that using illegals to plush down the wages of construction workers will put more money in the well to do pockets that give donations.
Five Things Conservative Voters Would Hate About Chris Christie
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/09/chris_christie_flaws.html?imw=Y&f=most-emailed-24h5
1. Illegal Immigration
The biggest chink in Rick Perry’s armor so far has been his record on illegal immigration — specifically, the legislation he passed as governor to allow illegal immigrants to pay the in-state tuition rate when attending state colleges and universities. It’s this policy that has led many Republicans to question whether Perry really gets illegal immigration at all. But Chris Christie is hardly the ally that illegal-immigration foes are looking for. In 2010, Christie told Politico that America needs to come up with a “clear path to citizenship.” He didn’t say “for illegal immigrants,” but since America already has a clear path to citizenship for legal immigrants, that’s what he meant. This is an entirely reasonable and mainstream position, but in much of the GOP, they call it “amnesty.”
3. Climate Change
Rick Perry claims that climate change is a hoax that scientists have concocted as a way to get more funding. Chris Christie, after going back and forth on the issue a bit, said just this August that “climate change is real” and “human activity plays a role in these changes.”
He is simply too heartless to understand the plight of American citizens, or he doesn’t care.
Of course he cares. He knows that using illegals to plush down the wages of construction workers will put more money in the well to do pockets that give donations. The illegal immigration issue is a matter of class warfare. The rich against the working class.
Ha... Mexico would ransack the joint... well, even worse than they already have.
Good article...lately all this knee jerk reactions from people you’d have thought had some commonsense.
This only encourages illegal immigration.
Hello?
No worries, only heartless conservatives disagree with Perry on illegal immigration. Subsidizing their education leaves ‘em more money for La Raza, MECHA and other fun student activities.
“This only encourages illegal immigration. “
and more Democrat voters
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