I don’t think that Perry has answered any of the questions on immigration very well, all he said was that he had almost 100% support from the Texas state legislature on immigration and in-state tuition for illegals.
He didn’t mention that Texas has one of the cheapest out of state tuition systems in the country, that students from all over the country go to Texas grad schools because the price is right. He didn’t mention that the reason that Texas tuition is lower for UT and Texas A&M is that the tuition is supported by oil and land sales from land that was returned to the state from the RR.
I keep wondering why Perry doesn’t talk about the fact that the Rio Grande runs along the Texas border with Mexico and the border runs through the middle of the river in many places and that if a fence were erected it would cut off ranches from a valuable source of water that they now use for their animals. That is the main reason that Perry opposes the fence, why doesn’t he say it?
You nailed it. It’s frustrating as heck.