Posted on 09/19/2011 6:07:02 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
Tea Party leaders confronted Rick Perry in his own back yard calling on him to use his power as governor to crack down on illegal immigration. JoAnn Fleming, chair of the Tea Party Caucus Advisory Committee of the Texas Legislature said, "The ball is in Gov. Perry's court. He needs to make a decision. He's running out of time." Perry favors giving in-state tuition to certain illegal immigrants which has put him at odds with many Tea Party activists. Ken Emmanuelson, a Dallas Tea Party activist, said Perry should issue an executive order overturning a Texas Department of Public Safety policy that they say has turned Texas into something of a sanctuary state. Tea Party activists are promising to hold Perry's feet to the fire over illegal immigration. Perry has been a vocal foe of a long border wall and said in 2001 he was "intrigued and open" to an amnesty proposal for Mexican workers made by George Bush. Perry's chief opponent, Mitt Romney, vetoed a similar in-state tuition bill when governor of Massachusetts, saying it would provide incentives to illegal immigrants.
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The mercury fumes have gotten to ya, your pingin on the wrong thread or can’t read.
I know.
It is less than a dozen attackers and they are relentless.
I’m not even down for Perry yet, but I cant let the constant disinformation slide by unanswered.
I was speaking of the Texas Tribune site, not FR.
Look at the article itself even they admit that this was a small group with #k signatures demanding action in a state of over 25 million.
The entire Texas Tribune.org site looks like it has a hardon for Perry.
They even have a "Perrypedia" LoL!
Doh!
3K signatures
The alternative is Romney and this is one issue out of a thousand that Mitt is better on.
The trouble is (at least for me), it's an extremely important issue. It will decide the future of our country.
Back during Eisenhower’s Operation Wetback, several uncles were Border Patrol “River Riders”. That Operation Wetback worked.
Now, like then, cut off the jobs and the freebies and they’ll stay home. THEN we have a problem!! who is going to do the work?? We can’t go back to the 50’s. For sure holder’s people won’t, they are on the gravey train.
Texas Trib is a Soros funded rag, out of super liberal Austin. Sorry for my confusion.
Good post and let me add another item from the U.S. Constitution (Article IV., Section. 4.): The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.
Politicians who aid and abet the current illegal invasion are clearly violating the solemn oath they took to protect and defend the constitution. And Perry is one of many who will do this to get votes.
Indeed, over time an economic co-dependence has developed, and that’s why it will be very messy to reform. The first step must be to secure the border with barriers where they make sense, and boots on the ground along with aerial assets. It will be expensive and take time to implement.
You guys made some terrific points and let me point something else out. Many so-called fiscal “conservatives” like Perry aren’t so conservative when we add up the billions in ever-increasing taxes citizens are paying for bankrupt public school districts, social welfare costs, prison incarceration, suppressed wages for working citizens, the costs of bilingualism, and the human and economic ravages of the drug cartel.
Why don’t you trust the economic system to work? If no one will do the job, the price the employers pay for those jobs will increase until people are enticed to work or someone will come up with a device that will do the work without people.
If the cost becomes so high no customer will pay, then that work will no longer need to be done.
All of you who say we have to have illegals here are actually saying you are willing to give up American sovereignty for a buck. This is the United States a sovereign nation and we have laws that need to be enforced and obeyed.
Now THERE's a visual...:oP
I think any prospective GOP nominee would be better that Obama and I’d support him/her. But we all know many will just drop out if we put up somebody with too much baggage or a political phony.
You could easily verify that quote from the Texas Tribune and source it out if you want. You won’t be the first who didn’t see something reported in the news. I’m sure that shocks you.
I'm thinking Rick Perry is going to think twice about using executive orders.....
“Romney supported the McCain-Kennedy-Bush comprehensive immigration reform bill before he was against it.”
Perry was an actual Democrat who backed Al Gore before he was a Republican.
Ok, for the sake of arguement, let’s explore your premise.
What wage do you estimate will be necessary to entice the unskilled blacks and whites who are now quite used to the government feeding, housing and supplying them with cash through a million programs? $10, $20 an hour? $10 probably won’t start.
Now explain the economics of basic low/un-skilled labor @ $20 an hour. Right now as a bonefide wage earner in a moderate skill job, its unlikely you’ll make no more than $15 an hour and a skilled Technician, like Electrician at around $20 an hour. If the unskilled lowlifes now get $15 to $20 an hour to get them off their ass, your same $15 to $20 skilled now must be double or its not worth your trouble. Your car is now $60K or more for what you bought in 2010 for $28K. Your home now buys for $450K to $600K. The hamburger and fries last week cost you $7 will then run you $20, and a gallon of milk $20.
Point being, that level of inflation is not sustainable, because it is bottom driven. Unless you want to give up a LOT, the only alternative is either immediately terminate all welfare forcing them to get a job for Minimum Wage, or import workers willing to take less. Which is more likely?
“The answer isn’t a fence.... Show me where I am wrong.”
There is nothing at all to stop our country from building a border fence. Nothing but the will to do it. Perry is an open borders advocate, period. His comment that the border MUST be sealed is a crock unless you actually do it, and a fence is the only method to most permanently seal that border. Romney says he would build a fence. Now how is it he would manage to do it and Perry can’t, hmmmm? Guess it is possible.
Where there is river, then build the fence on the U.S. side with gates in it and border security to man those gates. Or build the fence everywhere else other than by the river, and the river part, heavily man it with border security or with the National Guard, or drones, technology or all of the above.
The Israeli’s (funny that Perry so supports Israel with THEIR border fences, and by the way, Israel is at this very minute building a new fence along the Sinai to seal off that border w/Egypt also, so that much of their country will be sealed shut by border fences) know the benefits of border fences; Perry should know this also. The fact is he doesn’t want one, frankly. You are trying to cover for him, because he is your candidate of choice.
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