Now if so many was immigration in general decreased, you can bet they are more adamant about illegal migration.
Posted on 09/22/2011 2:55:26 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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The NINE(!) Candidates:
Michele Bachmann
Bachmann is serving her 3rd full term in the U.S. House. Founder of the House Tea Party Caucus, worked as a tax attorney, and was a foster mother for 23 teenagers. She is a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Herman Cain
Cain is the former chief executive of Godfather's Pizza and former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He lost the Georgia Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat in 2004. He was recently the host of Atlanta-based radio show.
Newt Gingrich
Gingrich served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. He represented Georgia's 6th congressional district as a Republican member from 1979 to 1999. He has a PhD in modern European history.
Jon Huntsman
Huntsman was Utah Governor, former ambassador to China under Barack Obama.
Ron Paul
Paul is serving his 11th full term in the U.S. House. He’s an ob-gyn and was Libertarian nominee for president in 1988. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 2008
Rick Perry
Perry is the three term governor of Texas, from 2000 to current. He is a retired Air Force captain for former farmer. He has a degree in animal science.
Mitt Romney
Romney was governor of Massachusetts (2003 to 2007) and former CEO of Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican 2008 nomination for president. He has an MBA (Harvard) and JD (Harvard Law).
Rick Santorum
Santorum served two terms in the U.S. House and two terms in the U.S. Senate. He became the Senate's third-ranking Republican in 2001. He was defeated for reelection in 2006.
Gary Johnson
Johnson served as governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2002. He founded what would become one of the largest construction companies in New Mexico. He has competed in several triathlons and climbed Mount Everest.
Chris Wallace sucks
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Huge understatement....!
Chris Wallace came up as 0 + and -8. Every question he asked was snarky and smarmy. He’s just like his dispicable dad and always trys to blind-side whoever he is interviewing. Chris is nothing but slime and would fit right in on MSNBC.
Now if so many was immigration in general decreased, you can bet they are more adamant about illegal migration.
You are so right.
This is from 2010 - Seems to be a pretty big issue
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/12/94050/most-americans-approve-of-arizonas.html
WASHINGTON — A strong majority of Americans support Arizona’s controversial new immigration law and would back similar laws in their own states, a new McClatchy-Ipsos poll found.
Sixty-one percent of Americans — and 64 percent of registered voters — said they favored the law in a survey of 1,016 adults conducted May 6-9.
Strikingly, nearly half of Democrats like the law, under which local law enforcement officers are tasked with verifying people’s immigration status if they suspect them of being in the country illegally. While the Democratic Party generally is regarded as more sympathetic to illegal immigrants’ plights, 46 percent of Democrats said they favored the law for Arizona and 49 percent said they’d favor the law’s passage in their own states.
More than 8 in 10 Republicans and 54 percent of independents favor the law.
In addition, about 69 percent of Americans said they wouldn’t mind if police officers stopped them to ask for proof of their citizenship or legal rights to be in the country; about 29 percent would mind, considering it a violation of their rights; and about 3 percent were unsure.
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/12/94050/most-americans-approve-of-arizonas.html#ixzz1YkeftRCf
teg_76 wrote:
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Perry is embarassing himself....we need someone who can debate Obama....
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You say that like Obama’s some great debater. He’s terrible!
I think he was going to say the question about Pakistan and the nukes. But he got flustered. I wish Perry had answered that one, too.
No I’m saying there are a ton of grants out there provided by the government that they qualify for because of who they are and not necessarily by merit. The different grants available from the government for various groups is mind boggling. Besides, we are a nation of laws not of men. That is the great equalizer. When we become a nation where we raise people above our laws it raises the “needs” of one group over the rest of the country.
The main argument seems to be “but it’s not their fault!” If my father is a great guy & a hard worker but he drives drunk and kills 3 people that action is going to affect me for the rest of my life. That clearly isn’t my fault, it’s his. We bend over more for these children than we do for children of our military whose parents die fighting for their country. Those college education dollars for these young people come from private foundations. Why not offer in state tuition to these kids in any state they want to live in?
Oh, and even without the grants (and let’s not forget government loans), yes the people do pay for children of illegals even if they don’t get financial aid. There are usually thousands of dollars different between in state and out of state tuition. Who absorbs that cost difference?
Cindie
Looked like about half were Romney supporters in the before and about 2/3 after. I can’t stand the Luntz panels, they are sorted and contrived. Any thinking person who listens to this claptrap needs their head examined.
Don’t tell us the Federal Government isn’t throwing money your way to stop illegals....Perry won’t disperse that which he is given and you wonder why the gov. says no to his recent requests....so where’s the money going?????
An average of $125 million...’ annually’... in Department of Homeland Security funding has gone to the state since 2006. ....
Perry has consistently sent LESS THAN 10% of those funds to border law enforcement agencies, where they are most needed.
http://www.texasinsider.org/?p=26695
No boots on the ground? Huh?
Of those more than 20,000 agents in 2010, more than 17,000 worked along the southweatern border, much of which is Texas.
Perry’s own office has a Homeland Security Stragtegic Plan that notes......: “ that local and state law enforcement officials PARTNER WITH federal agencies like the U.S. Border Patrol”.... and also notes that part of Texas’ $200 million investment since 2005 to fill border security gaps ...”came from federal grants.”
I know all about those preferential grants. They existed back in the 1970’s when I was in college and they exist today. When I started college, there were grants yes... but they were based on merit.. performance, i.e., grades.
I agree that that was the intent. That was how I understood it so I was surprised to find that he met her AFTER.
Why do you say that? I watched maybe half of the thing, didn’t seem like a big “Romney win” to me. The (somewhat) less lousy Perry is the one ahead in the polls.
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Whether I like it or not, the winners IMHO thus far are Cain & Romney. Losers are Perry and Bachmann. Newt and Santorum do better than most give them credit. Huntsman has been more tolerable this time, but is still intolerable. Johnson is one and done. Ron Paul remains half-genius and half-madman.
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I thought Santorum did the best job tonight. The guy is highly intelligent and articulate... I just wish he could gain more traction in this race.
If I had to rank what I think the Top 3 best debate performances tonight, I’d say:
1) Santorum
2) Cain
3) Gingrich
Well with that attitude that these are "prison walls" it's understandable why you would not understand the need to secure our country.
If my neighbor has a trash hole to live in and cares not to keep up his own yard, rather comes into mine and drops his trash here where I've worked my butt off to maintain my property ,then you can be certain a fence will go up to keep them off and secure my property.
Has nothing to do with Prison walls....nobody in the USA is running to Mexico to live....
The rest of them wouldn’t be out there doing yard work!
In-State Freshmen
Tuition and fees (15 credits/semester): $11,722
Non-Michigan Freshmen
Tuition and fees (15 credits/semester): $29,160
And these don't have housing added yet.
“Bachman on HANNITY is saying that Perry lied about the cancer suffering lobbyist because she didn’t appear before Perry until AFTER he introduced it.”
Bachman is right on this one. She met with him because he had introduced the bill and the girl offered to help on this issue as she herself had the disease. It is also true that from that point on Perry went out of his way to be kind to the girl and indeed befriended her and went to her funeral when she died. However, Bachman is accurate in saying that it was after he had already introduced the bill that he met this girl.
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I just can’t see voting for [Perry]. And it’s not because I support Sarah. She may not run and I am going to have to pick somebody. It’ll take a lot to sway me to his side.
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Is the thought of four more years of Obama enough to sway you???
Irenic wrote:
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Bachmann has disappointed me the most of any of the candidates. I signed up at her website as soon as she announced. Now, I am getting to where I almost don’t like her.
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Why not?
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