Posted on 09/21/2014 2:20:19 PM PDT by bestintxas
At an event today at the University of Texas Austin campus, Texas Governor Rick Perry reaffirmed his support of allowing illegal immigrant students to pay in-state tuition at Texas colleges and universities, while U.S. citizens from other states continue to pay higher out-of-state tuition rates. Perry made his remarks in a "One-on-One Conversation" with Texas Tribune CEO and Editor-in-Chief Evan Smith at the Texas Tribune Festival, an annual event organized by the online media outlet. Breitbart Texas made several queries to Governor Perry's press office for comment, but as of press time, had not received a reply. A UT student asked Perry a question inspired by a Tribune Festival panel from the previous day titled "What to do with DREAMers," referring to the children who were brought here by their parents without legal immigration status and want to attend public state universities. The student mentioned that Perry had signed a law granting in-state tuition to illegal immigrants and asked if he was still in support of that law, and also asked why Republicans had moved away from supporting this issue.
The law in question, HB 1403, was signed into law by Perry on June 16, 2001 and allows undocumented immigrant students who have lived in Texas at least three years and have a Texas high school diploma or GED equivalent to qualify for in-state tuition if they sign an affidavit that they intend to apply for permanent residency status as soon as they can.
HB 1403 passed by a substantial majority vote in both chambers of the Texas legislature with only four dissenting votes, but has been criticized since then as being one of the "magnets" that encourages people to enter the United States illegally. Perry defended the law six years later in an interview
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Must be the new hipster glasses. What a puke.
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!!
Our governments tax us to spend on foreigners!
Good bumper sticker!
Seriously?! WTF?
Might as well just let the Mexican president into the White House. It doesn’t make a difference. Neither of them are American.
Its easy to determine if someone has been in Texas long enough to merit “in-state” tuition. The question of their immigration status is a legal one that the schools aren’t competent to decide.
The law may make them sign an affidavit promising to apply for permanent residence, but if they didn’t do anything, didn’t out themselves, then what? Who is going to know the difference?
He just lost MY vote if he runs. I had to PAY for our daughter to go to school at UT 2001-2006. She was in-state, but it is so hard to get into UT and Tx A&M now.
She had to be in the top 10% and she went to a very competitive high school.
We don’t need a bunch of illegals getting on on the cheap.
TED CRUZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, he has to jump the fence like all the other loons!
Why do foreigners get better deals and benefits than American citizens? I do not understand why voters do not punish these politicians.
Governor Rick Scott just did the same thing in Florida.......
...strangely, when all of us conservatives were working/volunteering/donating towards the election, he sure didn’t let us know this was one of his priorities.
But they are victims. S/
He is so very wrong on this issue. As a parent with one in college and one heading there next year . . . my kids pretty much have to go in-state as we can’t afford out of state tuition. Yet illegals get in-state when they shouldn’t even in-country~!!! Kick them out!!!!
>> The question of their immigration status is a legal one that the schools aren’t competent to decide.
BULL. Then neither is a business.
Rick Squish Scott
He could sneak in while Obama’s golfing. That gives him at least 14 hours a day to accomplish the act.
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