He could prepare all he wants but if his stance on illegals is to educate them then he can look elsewhere for votes.
He was just on radio with Hannity. He underscores it wouldn't be an issue if the Feds had secured the border.
He said it's a state education issue and Texas decided it was in its interest to try keeping these new grads off welfare and out of jail by treating them as other Texans at state schools if they work toward legalization.
He put it in context of the employer sanctions, voter id, the Ranger Recon teams, joining the defense of AZ's immigration bill and other things Texas has put in place in trying to clean up the Fed's mess.
For Texas in-state tuition was a defensive policy in the absence of federal action on the border. He explained the heartless comment as referring to leaving them to be drag on the Texas welfare and criminal justice system.
He could prepare all he wants but if his stance on illegals is to educate them then he can look elsewhere for votes. .... wiggen
Sloppy performance, Grunthor. I agree.
In the so-called "Texas Dream Act", as Perry pointed out, only 4 Texas Legislators out of a total of 181 opposed it. In a conservative state like Texas, anything that gets 98% support must have something going for it. Perry, however, was just not ready with an answer to a challenge that was certain to come. In fact, Perry seemed surprised at the challenge and had nothing to offer except to blurt out the "no heart" line that is a red flag waved in front of Romney that is now posing as More Conservative Than Thou.
For example, Perry could have said something along these lines:
"Maybe the Dream Act should have been called the Sins of the Father Act. We are dealing with young adults that, through no fault of their own, were brought here as children by the Sins of their Fathers. They grew up in Texas, they know no other home but Texas and have been here for so long that they know English so well that they were accepted into college. The conservative Texas Legislature understands that. That is why 98% voted for this bill. Yes, we are all against illegal immigration. But we, in Texas, do not want to end up with college capable, uneducated, unemployed young people, who grew up in Texas and know no other home, though no fault of their own, because we want to punish them for the Sins of their Fathers."
"Sins of the Father" will take you a lot further than, "You have no heart".
If an adult tags along with other adults in a bank robbery, that adult is an accessory to the crime.
If a child is dragged along by his parent while the parent is committing a bank robbery, that child is considered an innocent bystander rather than somebody that commited an illegal act.
The child is not the responsible "illegal". The father is.
From that perspective, it can be seen how 98% of all Legislators in a state as conservative as Texas voted in favor of that poorly named law.