Many states have found this is a very unreliable set of information -- where legal people are fired and MANY who are illegal are not found on the list. It places a burden on business -- especially costly to small business. And as usual, it is others who have to pay for and clean up the mess left by the Federal govt. just leaving the states left hanging out to dry.
Gov. Perry supports AZ right to make decisions on the border -- but nothing is going to come of these laws because the activist courts are going to continue to block them. We need someone who understands this in the WH and that is Rick Perry.
If Perry was against illegal immigration he would be pushing for a law like the Alabama law in Texas.
That law has already been challenge and a major part about checking students' legal status blocked.
If Perry was against illegal immigration sanctuary cities would have been ended in Texas a long time ago.
Gov. Perry made this a priority issue in the last legislative session --- the legislature dropped the ball on this - they left without sending Perry a bill to sign and protected their own political rear-ends.
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.
Gov. Perry is against illegal immigration and he wants the border sealed. The Federal government refuses to do that. Texas spends a lot of money trying to do it -- but once those students are here for more than 3 years, graduated and have applied for citizenship and will PAY full in-state tuition -- it makes the most sense to Texas to do that. They represent a miniscule number of the 1,700,000 college students in Texas and the vast majority of them attend community colleges.
And Perry does indeed want amnesty, at least in the sense of the ordinary meaning of the word, which is to say letting people get away with their violation of the law: “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.”
Documenting workers is not amnesty.
Giving them a 'path to citizenship' is.
That is EXACTLY what it is. Claiming that it is not is insane.
Amnesty: the act of an authority (as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals
The penalty for illegally being in the country is deportation. When President Perry decides that the illegals will be pardoned from that penalty and given documents and allowed to continue to live here, he is by definition giving them AMNESTY.
By the way, this is just another example of how phony this whole pretense is.
The illegals CANNOT apply for citizenship. As a general principle, a foreign citizen living here illegally is not eligible under our laws to apply for adjustment to legal permanent resident status.
By claiming that the illegal students "must apply for citizenship" shows that it is a pretense for public relations purposes, to try to fool people who don't know our laws into thinking these people are on their way to citizenship.
They aren't, until President Perry gives them amnesty.