You badly need some perspective here. Do you really think this election is going to be about finding a candidate who will be mean to illegals? With the array of challenges we face, you think that will, or should, play a significant part in the voters’ choice?
You should also pause to consider that Governor Perry may have been right and you may be wrong on the tuition issue. Federal law requires Texas to care for the children of illegals from the time they are five until they turn 18 (and sometimes a bit beyond). The state has to be concerned with their nutrition, health care and education.
The law requires, in sum, that the children of illegals be treated as Texans until they graduate from high school. And you expect that Texas, having brought these people into their community under federal compulsion and nurtured them, in many cases, for more than a decade, should just cast them out as soon as they have a high school diploma.
Maybe it’s just plain accurate to suggest that this expectation is heartless. If you adopted a five-year-old child would you feel that all your obligations to that child ended when that child reached 18? Common decency doesn’t permit us to shift others in and out of communities as easily as that, which is all the Governor was saying. You may not want to hear it, but it’s true and it’s way past time for conservatives to get over their ridiculous tantrum on the subject.
Rome is burning and we haven’t got time for playing the instate tuition fiddle. A little perspective, please.
Hey, go ahead and double down on stupid. See where that gets you and Perry.
Heartless is used to describe those who think welfare moms should have to go to work. Heartless is used to describe those who think extending 99 weeks of unemployment is taking it even beyond where it should be.
The advocates of big government have a big heart. With other people's money.
Well that is a straw man, fluffy.
Adopting is one thing.
But if someone came in and camped in my back yard with his extended family, and sent his 5 yr old to my house and I was expected to take care of all his needs (plus those of the extended family trespassing in my yard) sorry I'm not obligated to do it.
It's fine if Texas has laws that make them "adopt" all the criminal insurgent invading colonists and pay all their expenses, let them do it.
Not the rest of us.
The way to take care of these children is to stop all benefits to the illegal criminal parents and then they will go back to their own country and raise their kids.
And if they don't want to pay for their upkeep, make their government do it.
Common decency doesn’t permit us to shift others in and out of communities as easily as that
You are right!
Let the parents show some common decency and responsibility and take their kids back to their country of origin and work to make it better than the USA!
Rome is burning because of the pandering, big government compassionate conservatism crap from people like you.