I debated answering your idiotic screed when you first posted it. At the time, rather waste my time answering your race-baiting nonsense, I basically threw my hands up in the air and said “ah what’s the point, screw it, I’m not in the mood to argue”. Now that someone else has answered my post, I have decided that I’m going to have a short say about your snarkey little bit of idiocy. Not ONE PENNY of America’s education funds should be spent on those who are in this country illegally... Not ONE PENNY. Who the hell cares if they were brought into the country by their parents. Screw you jonrick46, who the hell do you think you are, telling me I shouldn’t be OUTRAGED? I pay over $5500.00 per year of MY Texas property taxes to the local school district, which then has to surrender a large portion of that to the state for “redistribution” to “poorer” school districts. This is personal, jackass. Your post, suggests rascism on my part and then goes off on an idiotic tangent about eating children; but it doesn’t mean sh!t to me. What you have said is just pure stupidity. The money I pay in taxes being diverted to schools which are loaded with the kids of illegals does. That is money my kids and my neighbor’s kids don’t get, it has been stolen by the illegal aliens and their kids, who don’t have any right to it.
I tried to show, by borrowing the words from Johnathan Swift's, A Modest Proposal written in 1729, that all your concern about the burden of these children is nothing new. It is the same concern the British had for the burden of poor Irish and their children in Britain. I am sure there was the same concern when the Irish invaded our country during the potato famine. But the question remains, what are you going to do now that they are here? Without a Scotty to beam them up, there is not much you are going to do, unless you want to violate federal law which says you must educate the children in your state. Even if you were to pull a state's rights issue and not educate them, do you think they are going to pull up stakes and move back to Mexico?
The colleges and junior colleges in your state are making money from the tuitions paid by these children of illegals. In fact, California for that same reason has just passed a similar educational residency bill. Are you going to deny your state colleges that income?
Your answer is to not spend one dime of education money on them. For that, since you don't want my words of wisdom and wit, I'll give you Governor Rick Perry's words that do speak for the people of Texas:
"The federal DREAM Act is an amnesty bill, and I strongly oppose amnesty. The Texas educational residency bill was vastly different.
Because the federal government has failed in its basic duty to protect our borders, states are forced to deal with illegal immigrant issues.
In Texas, we had to deal with the children of illegal immigrants residing in our state and attending our schools, as the federal government requires states to educate these children through the public school system. Lawmakers in Texas – indisputably one of the most conservative states in America – were virtually unanimous in their decision.
The Legislature determined the payment of in-state college tuition is available to all students who have lived in Texas for at least three years and graduated from a public high school. If you meet those requirements, you pay in-state tuition, whether you relocated from Oklahoma, Idaho, Canada or Mexico. The only difference is that Texas residents who aren’t documented must be on the path to pursue U.S. citizenship to be allowed to pay in-state tuition.
There were a number of reasons the bill received widespread support among conservatives. Importantly, it has never had a cost to Texas taxpayers. In fact, our institutions of higher learning would actually lose tens of millions of dollars in lost tuition payments if the law were repealed. And it would lower the odds that these students would receive subsidized health care or end up in prison. Protecting taxpayers was a serious concern, given that a Supreme Court decree already requires taxpayers to pay for K-12 education for undocumented students."