Keeping illegals off the welfare rolls is directly related to reducing the level of taxpayer money that is being spent right now by border states to fund infrastructure, health care, education and local law enforcement. This is placing a huge burden on the system that amounts to tens of billions of dollars a year.
That is one option to expand on the policy reasoning. Imo, building a fence along the entire length of the Texas Mexico border and not just in metro areas, would be a big plus. And it would pay for itself in no time with savings on those local issues I mentioned.
I just can’t buy into the not going to college = being on welfare argument. There has to be something better. You see the disconnect there? It is not logical and a false either or choice...either welfare or college. It is untrue and insulting to imply that you are a welfare case if you only have a high school education. It is not as if they are unable to read and write. A better answer will serve him better. From this logic we should pay for everybody to go to college and erase welfare rolls from that point forward. Sending people to college is more likely to get them brainwashed into leftist ideologies, causes, movements and their special rights than to get them a real job these days.
Let’s try harder to make a better argument than that for our side. The premise is flawed.
There will be a question at some point like this: “Why do I have to pay out of state tuition if I come from Oklahoma to Texas, eventhough I am an American, but someone from Mexico, who is in America illegally, is considered a resident?”
To keep them off of Welfare rolls doesn’t address this inequal treatment to our American citizens. A better answer might be that anybody who can prove they lived in Texas for the required amount of time will be eligible for in state tuition rates and is considered a resident of Texas for that purpose.