He already said that he shouldn’t have said that.
I believe he is doing stuff on preventing people from coming in, as much as he can with the feds refusing to do anything.
I am not going to get upset about something minor like those few students who will pay in-state tuition. The Texas legislature backed it, so it wasn’t just Perry.
And what ARE we to do with kids who wind up here through no fault of their own? Many didn’t know their parents were illegal until they had to provide a birth certificate for drivers’ licenses. Many of them don’t speak Spanish or speak it poorly.
If the citizens of Texas wanted to do that through their legislature, it is not my business. Indiana has enough stuff to deal with without me sticking my nose into stuff in Texas for which I have an incomplete understanding.
I wish we could have a dispassionate, realistic debate on the illegal alien problem, but people tend to get hysterical and unreasonable.
We’ve got over 12 million illegals here. It’s pretty obvious that we’re not gonna get rid of them. There’s no magic wand or electric fence that will do that.
A big step would be deporting law breakers but the Obama administration won’t even do that.
Now, what to do about illegals receiving benefits? I read a study on it and they DO receive benefits in most states. Mostly, they receive food stamps and medicaid.
But, interestingly enough, they do not receive benefits because they are not working. Virtually all of the Mexican families had at least one family member working, many had two. The problem is that they work at menial, low-paying jobs and have incomes low enough to qualify for those benefits.
Should we cut off benefits to those families entirely? That’s a poser. And what about the children born here? Are they citizens or not. I’ve read opinions both ways.
I think if we could actually close the border, and we could if we wanted to bad enough, this problem would fade away and we could decide what we want to do with the illegals here now without hysteria.
It’s the constant influx and the feeling of helplessness it engenders that makes the problem so bad.
All of these welfare programs need to be looked at, not just the ones helping illegals.
But we can’t seem to talk about it.