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.
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“Texans are either too dumb or too arrogant to see what has happened to California and not recognize the danger. “
No we are not dumb. but your numbers are wrong. They are too optimistic. ALREADY a MAJORITY of Texas newborns are hispanic. Every urban county is well ovr minority-majority, and the Texas white voters are 10 - 20 years older than that average minority hispanic Texan. It is FAR more hispanic than California was even in 1990s.
A MAJORITY OF TEXANS WILL BE HISPANIC IN A GENERATION. This is not based on some future flood, this is based on the people ALREADY HERE. Even back in 1992, a Democrat politician joke about Pat Buchanan’s concern of mexican coming across the border (phew, that was 20 million migrants ago). She mocked his proposal to build a wall, saying:
“WE ARE ALREADY HERE.”
And so they are.
In 20-30 years, Texas will be a Hispanic majority state, and will be, if ethnic voting trends dont change, a Dem-leaning swing state.
There is only one solution to give GOP ANY HOPE:
- WIN THE HISPANIC VOTE FOR THE GOP. There are glimmers of hope, as Bush and Perry have cracked 40% of this vote.
THAT IS THE REASON FOR WHAT PERRY AND G W BUSH HAVE DONE AND ARE DOING. Texas heritage has a relationship with Mexico and the mexican migrants different from most any other state, with many multi-generation texans of mexican origin and with a large amount of business and other links. And of course the burgeoning population.
The Texas Republican party welcomes hispanic voters, hardworking ‘values’ voters and prolife common sense folks into the fold.
It’s a tightrope, because Texas GOP leaders do ‘hispandering’ and are weak on immigration to not offend the business leaders and hispanic groups, but the grassroots ... do NOT want open borders, help for illegal aliens, etc. Texas lege passed voter ID and Perry signed that, but sanctuary cities bill didnt pass.
In state college tuition for only three years living in the state? I can see it as ok for students that went all the way through grades K to 12 or at least from elementary but only three years seems like a really nice recent prize
Can we start seriously vetting Herman Cain now, or will all the gutless former Democrats, now RINOs, keep harping on the viability of the top two established career RINOs?
Yes, pro-ILLEGAL alien liberal Rick Perry is very much like the Bushs. But don’t tell the PerryBots that, the liberal media has them convinced that Bush and Perry aren’t anything alike.
What is treasonous? The children of the illegals committed no crime.
Way too much of a prize...but then that was the intent...
Is Perry a liberal? I thought he was running on the GOP ticket. Im confused.
I suspect the it was a response to this post. I had to sit on my hands when I read it.
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To: Clairity
Yeah, Texas is different. We can put up a much shorter fence just cutting you guys off on the North.
3 posted on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 10:01:42 PM by muawiyah
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“What is treasonous? The children of the illegals committed no crime. “
then they can apply for citizenship just like everyone else
Texas under Perry, was the FIRST state to pass in-state tuition for illegals. This created a trend for other states with liberal governors.
Well there’s a surprise - the “Latino Policy Institute” supports allowing “undocumented Latino high school students” to get tuition benefits.
Shocking.
No kidding. The usual open-borders whores. So what?
70% of the American public wants illegal immigration curtailed. That is a preponderance of opinion enough to kill any independent enthusiasm for a Republican nominee with a record of such bogus "centrism." Got it?
It's a loser, and so is Perry. It's not about compassion, morality, or anything else. It is about reaching into the pockets of average taxpayers and telling them you're going to take their money at gunpoint to provide financial aid to their competitors for honest work and public resources for which they have paid. They know it and don't like it and that includes the bulk of Hispanics, many of whom compete directly with illegals for jobs.
Sell your BS elsewhere.
and we’ll watch as your assimilation into mexico proper continues at an even faster pace?
The Open Borders/Amnesty conspiracy of Perry/Rove/Bush/McCain is a crime and it is treasonous. American democracy cannot survive if it is not defeated.
Lols, that is brilliant.
please add me to your Perry Ping!
LOL I understand then, I shouldn’t have been so harsh ... yes I don’t know how long this old Republic can stand in its current form if we are gonna let tens of millions of invaders move in. It reminds me of Rome turning a blind eye to the barbarians.
I wish more Texans (and others) would start seriously thinking about where we go from here if country falls apart.
There are no "subsidies" involved here. It is a matter of in state tuition rates.
As a matter of trivia, my state limits the acceptance of in state students in the state colleges while increasing the out of state enrollments. This increases the tuition revenues, which makes money for the state colleges. Does that seem fair?
Likewise, it does not seem fair to deny in state tuition rates to children of illegals who were residents far longer than students who were residents for one year and could then qualify for in state tuition rates. Does that seem fair to you? That's why the Texas legislature passed the bill to give children of illegals the opportunity for in state tuition rates if they met the qualifications. It was passed by a huge majority. It was not only Governor Rick Perry's bill. It was the citizens of Texas that passed that bill--citizens that seem to know the value of fairness; which is something that politics has clouded many on the FR's thinking to know.
The bill never got out of committee in the TX House. The TX Legislature wouldn’t touch it after Arizona was sued and can’t use their law.
It is the Feds who are not doing one friggin’ thing about it...This is what they want...more browns than whites...so they can turn America into a third world hell hole. I’ve got news for them it ain’t going to happen.
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