No Governor of Texas can deport an Illegal. That belongs to the Feds. Any governor of Texas has a big problem, millions of illegals that he can not get rid of no matter what he does. Our public schools are supported by sales tax and property tax generally. We have a separate tuition for out of state residents because they previously had not lived in Texas and paid no Taxes to Texas. Many of the Illegals have lived in Texas and paid taxes just like us so they are supporting our public schools. To deny them a higher education would create a permanent lower caste. That is the logic of Rick Perry and I agree with it.
You are partially correct, those are the facts but it was the logic of the majority of the Tx congress and senate.
Perry could not have vetoed the bill if he had wanted too.
We are stuck with lemons by the fed.
They were trying to make lemonade by saying “Jeez, if we can’t deport them, and are forced to support them, doesn’t it make sense to help them become self sufficient?”