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To: kabar
What about “ House Bill 1403 into law after the bill passed the Senate with zero no votes” a pure veto proof passage, is a bad mark on Perry?

There was damn little Texas voter public opposition to 1403. What about the democratic process is hard for you to grasp? Does democracy only apply when it verifies your narrow perspective?

Per your exaggerated emphasis on “GED”. Maybe in Virginia (likely not) you can get into the best colleges with a GED, its a mighty hill to climb here in Texas. Just more smoke you think will blind folks to the reality you oppose.

What Texas has been doing, even “In-State Tuition” has been working and adding to our success while most other States are sharing the basement, proves we must be doing something right. That proof is in the pudding.

364 posted on 09/25/2011 8:13:31 AM PDT by dusttoyou (paulnutz/bachnutz/palinwishers are wee-weeing all over themselves, Foc nobama)
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To: dusttoyou
There was damn little Texas voter public opposition to 1403. What about the democratic process is hard for you to grasp? Does democracy only apply when it verifies your narrow perspective?

Do you believe the states and localities have the right to set up sanctuary states/cities to protect illegal aliens? What ever happened to equal protection and the supremacy clause?

Per your exaggerated emphasis on “GED”. Maybe in Virginia (likely not) you can get into the best colleges with a GED, its a mighty hill to climb here in Texas. Just more smoke you think will blind folks to the reality you oppose.

Sorry, but that is what the Texas Dream Act stipulates. This is the same kind of flim-flam that the advocates of a Federal Dream Act use. It is all about the children. If you read the actual law, it covers not only children, but any illegal who enters the state and meets the criteria, including adults. The law covers all state institutions of higher learning including community colleges.

What Texas has been doing, even “In-State Tuition” has been working and adding to our success while most other States are sharing the basement, proves we must be doing something right. That proof is in the pudding.

Working? Texas has the second highest number of illegal aliens. They cost the state close to $5 billion a year in just education, health care, and incarceration costs not to mention the thousands killed or injured by them. There is an active court case challenging the Texas in-state tuition law and initiatives in the legislature to repeal the law.

I bet if the law were put on the ballot as a referendum item, it would be defeated. In MD, one of the bluest of blue states, the Dem controlled legislature passed in-state tuition for illegals and it was signed by the governor. It was met with a firestorm of protest. A movement arose that gathered enough signatures, twice that was needed, in record time. The measure will be on the ballot and the law suspended until the results of the referendum. Like gay marriage, when it is put to the voters directly, it is always defeated.

366 posted on 09/25/2011 8:32:14 AM PDT by kabar
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