[P-Marlowe]

11 years as governor and yet Texas is one of three states with an INCREASE in the number of illegals.

Where did you get that statistic?

Every state in the Union has had an increase in illegal immigration in the last 11 years.

[rintense]

The link has been posted ad nauseum on Perry threads. Clearly you missed it. Here is the MSNBC version. It also appeared in the Dallas News and the My San Antonio website.

Then of course, there's this gem about the number of illegals getting in state tuition in Texas... guess what? It's rising too. Read the details closely and you'll find the are 'eligible for state aid', which is a fancy way of saying supporting illegals with taxpayer money.

You don't get rid of ants by spreading sugar, plain and simple.

[fight_truth_decay]

Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down a state statute denying funding for education to illegal aliens and simultaneously struck down a municipal school district's attempt to charge illegal immigrants an annual $1,000 tuition fee for each illegal alien student to compensate for the lost state funding[1]. The Court found that where states limit the rights afforded to people (specifically children) based on their status as aliens.... Texas.

Actually in 2010 a study reported by a news outlet posted illegal immigration was down in all states that so border, but Texas.

Texas Moves to Crack Down on Cities Protecting Illegal
Immigrants
Published May 10, 2011

The vote came on the eve of Obama's first trip as president to the U.S.-Mexico border, where he planned to continue his recent push to revive legislative efforts to remake the nation's immigration laws....In the absence of a sweeping national law, many statehouses have taken immigration matters into their own hands.

Other states are not widely effected as the border states will illegal immigraion.
We say no to illegal immigrants, yet we help them stay... Americans want to stop illegal immigration. Yet we happy to benefit from low prices for groceries, cheap yardwork and housecleaning services.

Government interference stops states from acting in their own best interests on immigration [see Arizona] as well as the "wants" and "needs" of the well to do in America.

2003 was a different time in Texas when it came to the problem of Illegal immigration. The Democrats and like thinking politicians on the Right have dangled the carrot, and with the matricular consular card, approval of dual citizenship by Mexico..more and more came.

Bureaucratic red tape.