Good luck and I like you personally but I’m over Perry....another BUsh over mexicans
It’s not about deporting kids...it’s about them paying non resident tuition
I watched the debate....sad
Palin is nuttier than hell if she doesnt get in now if she wants it
Perry just opened the door wide for her and then threw himself under his own bus as a courtesy.....and I was prepared to support him
With Obamas numbers and our frontrunners having zero confection to the base it will never get any better for her
“It’s not about deporting kids...”
But it should be. This issue only comes up when the child wants to go to college at a state school — in other words, the “child” is no longer a child, but an 18 year old high school graduate who is now an adult choosing to break the law by living illegally in this country rather than returning to where they are actually citizens.
Perry and the legislature are wrong on this issue. They owed it to their taxpayers to take every opportunity to make life expensive and difficult for illegals, and certainly not spend any more tax dollars than absolutely required by the feds. Since the feds have tied the state’s hands on actual deportation, it is the state’s responsibility to encourage self-deportation. The feds require the state to provide K12 education to anybody who shows up, but it does not require in-state subsidized tuition rates, else out-of-state tuition rates themselves would be illegal. Hence the feds cannot be said to have forced TX hand and this failure of policy belongs solely to the TX legislature for passing it and Perry for failing to veto it.
Arguments that “they’re going to stay here anyway so we may as well educate them” makes as much sense as “they’re going to abuse drugs anyway so we may as well have government subsidize it.”
Why does that matter so much to you?
They meet residency requirements as the law is written; they aren't taking anything from anyone else; they're not being subsidized.
It does seem that you prefer that they did not go to college at all as you are putting a large financial obstacle in their path.
So, why don't you want these kids going to college?
If your parents brought you out of Mexico or Central America, etc, and you lived in the US for at least 3 years, how bad do you want to leave and go back?