The response of Freepers on this topic really saddens me. If people are so angry that they can’t look at facts and take a forest rather than tree position we are done. Perry is proving he is an honest man. He made a politically suicidal statement and isn’t backing down from it. Why would he do that, why not just spin immediately like Obomination? He beleives what he’s saying. OK step back. What is he saying. Texas went to the Supreme court attempting to not educate illegal children in grade school and high school. They lost. There was a state wide vote and the Texans overwhelmingly voted to provide illegal people who had gone to high school in Texas and who had lived in Texas for 3 years in state tuition. Children from any other state in the union can get in state tuition in Texas after being resident for on year. The illegal has to be on a path to be obtaining legal status. So these families have been in the state at least 3 years, in many cases it has been many more years than that. Their parents have paid state sales tax, property tax or rented from folks paying property tax. In many case the have managed to get on the books so they can pay wage tax also. It is a lousy system because they shouldn’t be here illegally but they are productive citizens and while the country works its way to a solution we need to be pragmatic and fair. When anger talks and says let them get jobs and pay their way the person saying that is being an ass. The overwhelming majority of them have jobs and they are paying instate tuition which gives funding to the college system. The system takes 97% of applicants at its largest campus so they are not crowding out other Texans.If you think that deporting someone to a place where they have not lived since they were a toddler is the right answer you are a fool. These are the best of the crop, these kids who have stayed within the system and are ambitious and want to go to school. Don’t you think we should deport the criminals and the people on welfare first? These kids are an asset if we let them be. I am all for instruction in English only, no La Rasa, no phony liberal degrees in cultural relativism but that is not what is being discussed. The responses to this topic have been a hate fest and I am ashamed to have it on The Free Republic.
If you’re ashamed of FR, I suggest you leave. I think you’d better check your facts. I don’t believe there was a state wide vote that was overwhelmingly approved, I believe the legislature approved it and Perry signed it.
I believe him, too! I also **KNOW** from experience in working very very closely with our county's Spanish community that his immigration policies would make CRUEL practices even more CRUEL.
Please read my posts, #109 and #111.
Those advocating for strict enforcement of immigration law, and making it even tougher to live and work here illegally are the **compassionate** conservatives.
Perry with his proposals is being cluelessly CRUEL!
Property tax on rental property? Well....What percentage of property tax is being paid when there are are SEVEN men sleeping in one bedroom and the apartment is Section-8 housing???
How much property tax is being paid on Section-8 housing with THREE families with six kids living in it?
Huh?
Yes,...I see this ALL THE TIME!!!
Please read my posts #109 and #111.
Very true. Pay no attention to the ronpaul types.