You may want to use this picture in the Rick Perry Report
How does one who is here illegally apply for full citizenship? How many of those here illegally, who have received in state tuition, have applied for and/or received citizenship?
I support Rick Perry and I’ve pinged a few friends to your post.
We understand the Texas law. It has been explained over and over to us.
We simply disagree with Rick on this. It's not a lack of understanding, it's a philosophical disagreement.
And U.S. law doesn't allow illegals living here to become citizens so that provision requiring them to "work towards citizenship" is absurd.
La Raza Rick... America’s Nightmare.
You can wrap this legislative piece garbage up with a pretty shiny bow, but it’s still a piece of garbage
Actually what we’re talking about is a set of exceptions to the non-resident tuition rate. It includes students from counties that border Texas in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. It includes active military and veterans and their dependents, as well as the survivors of those who give their lives for our country if they move to Texas.
The best way to think of the exception for young men and women who are brought here as children is that the Feds have let all of us down by refusing to block illegal aliens at the border and by refusing to deport them after they get here. That some kids are able to succeed, graduate and qualify for college after 3 years of living as illegal aliens in our State is commendable - for the children and their parents.
In the end, it’s like the Mosaic law concerning someone who digs a hole and doesn’t cover it up - that person is responsible for damages caused by the hole. In our case, the Feds did the digging, but we have to live with the consequences of the gaping hole. We try daily to cover it up, and this is one of the ways we do that.
Thank you for the information about the website. It’s a keeper!
You should pinch hit for Perry in the debates. You do a better job of defending his positions than he does.
Good job.
You’ve got all the right pieces together in one place for an informative brief on the Texas in-state tuition issue. Anyone looking for a quick read with all the basic facts, this is it. Contains links to associated reference material too.
My state of Colorado just voted down in-state tuition back in April. I don’t support it either. As far as I can tell, however, its really a states rights issue with the final decision coming on a state by state basis. Gov Perry is a huge supporter of the 10th amendment and its key feature, federalism. The Founders envisioned the states to be like small laboratories for experiments in democracy. People need to get informed.
What encourages illegals to enter Texas is the failure of the federal government to secure the borders. If the Feds would do their job and secure the borders, most of the problems Texas is having with illegal immigration would subside in short order and eventually be resolved for the most part.
Good information. You'd be a valuable asset.
“The Texas Dream Act simply offers children of illegal immigrants...”
Complete nonsense.
The children of illegal immigrants, if born in the US, would be a US citizen no different than Rick Perry,
The Perry Dream Act grants in state tuition to illegal aliens.
You may want to use this picture in the Rick Perry Report
Here we go again, watching the Perry folks try to jam square pegs into round holes...None of them fit, but they’ll tell ya the did.
They’re not legal residents, not in Texas, and not anywhere in the United States. They don’t deserve resident tuition and on top of that, their family is most certainly a net drain on the taxpayers. Adding tuition support just makes it worse. Perry is soft on illegal immigration which has run unchecked for years. At this point, the demographics of the country have so changed due to non-enforcement and third world preferences that it’s essentially a losing cause. That’s the sad part. The really sad part is with Perry kneecapped by his support for illegal tuition aid, we have the RINO Romney and Cain. The whole field is unexciting and given the media treatment of Palin, I’m sure any entrance there won’t do much good either. I was pro-Perry and I’m pro-Palin as I believe she would be pro-US (and pro-mining which is my industry. Perry would be keep the EPA in check but its obvious we’d have a mass amnesty, after all, it would be heartless not to. We’ll see how it goes, but at this point the candidates are so disappointing Palin will probably enter along with Christie. Romney would be a disaster.
In fact, someone illegally resident in the US cannot apply for a legal entry visa. They would have to go back to their own country to do that.
What Perry means by "applying for full citizenship," is agitate for Amnesty.
I must be a heartless racist.
"They [the children of illegals] are being educated, right up to and through high school.Where did it come to pass that if you're here illegally, you have a right to a college education, let alone the right to have it subsidized, when all Americans do NOT have their college educations subsidized?
I mean, this is perverse, to be honest with you.
And it is also the position of the Bush family. And I think…if I'm wrong, I stand corrected…it's the position of some of our "inside-the-beltway" publications.
But it is not the position of the American people, who have to pay this bill, endlessly."
The children of illegal immigrants don't need the Texas Dream Act, they automatically get "in-state tuition rates" since they were born on U.S. soil and given citizenship at birth.
The Texas Nightmare Act allows illegal immigrants themselves, those who were born in another nation and who ENTERED the U.S. UNLAWFULLY, entrance to any Texas state school at in-state tuition rates.
If you don't have a problem with that when thousands of American students in the other 49 states can't afford to go to college in Texas because they don't have access to "in-state tuition rates", go ahead and vote for Ricky.
I'm on the side of the 81% of americans who oppose this law.
