You need to know this.
Perry has been like a pitbull on Obama as far as the border, and you have to also realize that Newt proposed Amnesty during a debate.
End of story.
Newt called us heartless
I have troubles with Newt, partly because of the amnesty thing. Right now I don’t have a candidate that I support. Cain is out of the race. Bachman and Santorum’s numbers are critically low.
I don’t understand why Perry said you’d about have to not have a soul to deny in-state tuition to the children of illegals. My daughter will graduate from high school in spring. She was looking at a book that listed scholarship opportunities. She couldn’t find any that were for whites. It was all Hispanics and Blacks. Almost like my daughter doesn’t count because she’s white. That’s having a “soul”?
I do understand that there are so many in the Hispanic culture - or at least here anyway - who don’t want higher education. They want to drive fast cars, do drugs, and get laid. (My half-white, half-Mexican neighbor says that’s just their culture; it’s in their blood. I said maybe so but there are Latinos who don’t do that stuff too). So when a kid like that does want to further their education it’s sad to think about them not being able to. So from that perspective I can understand why Perry might have said that. But what should have happened is the parents should have put their names in to come here legally, or else they should have stayed where they were and worked to improve it there.
My daughter is friends with a girl who’s moved around a lot, probably to evade detection as an illegal. Her older sister is dating a guy while screwing around with somebody else. Her mom told her to keep dating this guy even though she doesn’t even like him because she needs to trick this guy into marrying her so she can be legal to stay here and then she can divorce him. Never mind who gets hurt. Just use people for your own purposes. This girl will want to go to college, and there will be scholarships for her just because she’s Hispanic.
The message all her classmates are getting from her story is totally wrong. But it’s there because it is politically advantageous for some powerful people to make sure that people like this girl get the sweet treatment regardless of how they use and abuse both the system and the people around them. The powerful people force this reality onto all of us by saying that it would be heartless of us to not wink at this kind of thing.
If we give somebody in-state tuition even though they are the child of an illegal, does that mean that we deport the illegal parents but not the child who then gets in-state tuition because they are a US citizen residing in-state? Is that what Perry supports? Is he saying they should be given in-state tuition because they themselves are US citizens, regardless of what their parents are? And would he support the deportation of the parents for their illegal activity, regardless of what their children are?
I want to understand what he’s saying.
So, you're standing against Phase 1 of Newt's border plan, then?