Posted on 09/02/2011 5:15:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With Rick Perry proving to be a serious threat to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, the former Massachusetts governor swung through Tampa Friday to exploit what some Republican see as Perry’s Achilles heal: immigration.
"We must stop providing the incentives that promote illegal immigration,’’ Romney told more than 100 people attending a Republican Hispanic conference in Tampa. " As governor, I vetoed legislation that would have provided in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrants and I strengthened the authority our state troopers had to enforce existing immigration laws."
Romney, 64, never mentioned by name the Texas governor, who leads Romney in most national polls as well as in early primary and caucus state. But immigration is a new issue of focus for Romney in this campaign cycle, and his campaign knows that Perry, 61, is already facing criticism from conservatives for not taking a hard enough line on illegal immigration.
Perry, for instance, in 2001 signed a Texas version of the "Dream Act" that made Texas the first state to allow in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants - much like the bill Romney boasted of killing in Massachusetts.
Illegal immigration remains a hot button issues among Republican activists, though leaders in Texas - where 38 percent of the population is Hispanic - have tended to take a more moderate approach to the issue. Perry, for instance, said last year he had no interest in passing a tough Arizona-style immigration law for his border state.....
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Then there’s that stupid assed comment about imposing term limits on the supreme court and congress overturning their rulings.
“I could give a hoot so long as the insured pays the premiums.”
The PF reading dysfunction I see,
” We allocated an additional $4 billion to the Medicaid program, and more than $900 million to the Children’s Health Insurance Program.”
You can believe that Texas is Ca or NY all day long, but it doesn’t make it the truth.
Muy interesante!
Why is that surprising? Bachmann is far more likely to win over Perry's supporters than Mitt's.Bachmann's best chance to win is by exposing Perry as a faux conservative.
Mr. Illegal Gardener doesn’t have a leg to stand on. He and Perry are both rotten on the issue of the illegal invasion.
Zactly, particularly if the work is contracted out! For sure, several eyes will be watching and monitoring the work to check for illegal aliens...LOL.
Talk to Frank Murkowski.
As far as I’m concerned, Perry and Romney are working together and putting on an act.
Ray Sullivan works for Perry and his wife Leslie Sullivan is working for Romney.
I don’t know what your “PF” reference is
And St Rick felt that it was important enough to include in his pandering.
Face it, your boy is somewhere to the left of John McCain.
I does not exist.
Possibly because Bachmann and Romney have almost no common ground, whereas Perry has common ground with each....plus the fact that Perry has sucked all of the air out of the room for the other two.
38% of the population of Texas is hispanic.
Couldn’t be more clear than that.
Pander pander pander pander LOL
In-state tuition is a taxpayer subsidized amount.
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