Posted on 09/27/2011 7:57:53 PM PDT by Clairity
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is a radical who encourages illegal immigration.
Really?
That incendiary line of attack in the free-for-all among Republican presidential hopefuls begs for a deep breath and a dose of rational reflection.
Since 2001, Texas has allowed students to qualify for in-state college tuition if they've lived in the state for three years leading to high school graduation, completed their studies for a diploma or a GED, and enrolled at a public higher education institution.
Citizens, legal residents and other immigrants can get lower rates under the law. Students who meet the criteria but aren't U.S. citizens yet must file a statement that they intend to seek legal status.
The policy, which won widespread support in the Legislature before getting Perry's signature, has moral, practical and financial dimensions.
Support has come from the influential Texas Association of Business and chambers of commerce, as well as educators, the Texas Catholic Conference and civil libertarians.
In 2009, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott upheld the law. This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court also rejected a challenge to a similar law in California.
(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...
The immigrants brought here by their parents are paying a range of $20,000 to $80,000 for these “handouts”.
I wonder how we can get the welfare and food stamp crowd to pay the same for their handouts? That would be so cool. They could pay for their own program.
Ha, hah, hahahahah... ya,right...
A shining outhouse in a dump ~
The conditions for illegal aliens are less rigorous than for OTHER AMERICANS.
BTW, you Texans can LOSE instate tuition for as little as failing to pay a nonreturned book fee at a public university or college.
There's also a federal law that prohibits the practice you advocate. Illegal aliens NEVER earn or qualify for "residency" in a state ~ not ever!
If they do, instate tuition is not paying the bills.
This article is illuminating: http://www.projo.com/news/content/TUITION_INCREASE_09-17-11_1AQDQI9_v21.62f04.html
This is all hypothetical stuff of course, but undoubtedly there'd be a surplus of these kids ~ and the makings of a Corps of Janisaries.
Is this what people want? Or, is it time to ship them back home.
Our assimilation into Mexico STOPS once we cut off Texas. They'll quickly be reduced to a supplier of raw commodities and oil ~ nothing more.
The problem will become "illegal alien Texicans" ~ but I think we can identify them much easier.
Regarding instate tuition rates, they are ALL subsidized by the taxpayers!
Apparently you guys would rather be shooting down women and children on the border than putting up a fence (and various barricades) to keep the narcotrafficantes from driving in.
Hmm.
They are still illegal even before 18. We don’t have an exception in the law for the kiddies.
You sure got that wrong. I suggest you bother reading the law.
Why isn’t Mark Levin running for President?
I smile just thinking about it.
Texas took the bull by the horns and controlled it. Before Texas did this illegals were receiving in state tuition as any other legal Texas Student. They now have to jump through hoops to attend whereas not a legal Texas student. IF an illegal has a criminal record or below an average of B's no in state tuition, if a legal Texas student has a criminal record or is below a B average they still receive in state tuition.
You don't need a law that specifically excludes illegals when you don't even let them enter the school.
BTW, those rules that require a visa? That's about a federally issued student visa. It doesn't give you instate tuition. It gives you a right to enter a specific school for a specific time at OUT OF STATE TUITION RATES.
It's a viable approach to illegal aliens.
WE OWE THESE PEOPLE NOTHING.
There is also federal funding for school programs on top of that.
Our tax dollars are used by Texas to pay educations for illegal alien adults.
Looks like Sarah isn’t running. Hopefully, the one issue people haven’t done irreparable harm to Perry. It wasn’t smart to burn the bridge of the frontrunner because that will leave us with Romney and I’m not voting for Romney. He’s the only nominee I won’t vote for. At least we can count on Perry on the other issues - guns, pro life, continued freedom of religion (the Christian kind), and tax cuts. I am sick over the way Perry has been treated here. Illegal immigration has been a problem for decades.
That's California, not Texas. Virtually all other states hold to the same standard ~ to wit, there is NO RIDING TIME for residency rules when the purpose of being in the state was to attend school.
What you are thinking of is whether or not an illegal can enroll in a state college or university.
Your state has an unusual "residence rule" ~ that seeks to evade the FEDERAL LAW regarding state residence for illegal aliens.
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