Perry is for legal immigration...NOT illegal immigration.
We have about 30,000 people PER WEEK moving to Texas...legally.
Perry and the power structure are gaining a short-term economic high but in the long run what they are doing is to make Texas more like California
ROFLOL!!!! What is making "Texas more like California" is the CA people fleeing the mess they have made there...coming to TX!
If Perry was against illegal immigration he would be requiring employers to use e-verify like Arizona has done.
If Perry was against illegal immigration he would be pushing for a law like the Alabama law in Texas.
If Perry was against illegal immigration sanctuary cities would have been ended in Texas a long time ago.
If Perry was against illegal immigration he would not be in favor of giving a tuition break to illegals who are not even allowed to work in the country.
If Perry was against illegal immigration he would not be in favor of legalizing the illegals, as he has stated he wants to do: “That’s why I support a guest worker program that takes undocumented workers off the black market and legitimizes their economic contributions without providing them citizenship status.”
What is making "Texas more like California" is the CA people fleeing the mess they have made there...coming to TX!
What is going to make "Texas more like California" is legalizing the illegals, as Perry wants to do.
Let's be honest, the American people in the 21st century are not going to sit still for a permanent "second class citizens" of 20-38 million people. They will give them voting rights, if not the first go around then in a second step.
Perry, with all of his pandering to Hispanics and willingness to cater to the National Council of La Raza, still only gets around 38% of the Hispanic vote.
Obviously, of that vote the percentage willing to vote for a Republican is much higher for the long-assimilated Hispanics. We can assimilate a reasonable amount of immigrants over a long period of time.
But for the tens of millions of illegals, this vote will go 80%+ for the Democrats. When that day comes, Texas will be the new California, and the USA will be well on its way to finally shedding the last vestiges of limited government and free markets and individual freedoms.
A Perry presidency will be a Pyrrhic presidency, as it will be the last conservative in the presidency, whether a compassionate conservative or otherwise, for a long, long, time.