Gee, what an outrage! That's the EXACT same rate I would have to pay to go to Texas A&M university, seeing as I'm a resident of Illinois and thus don't have access to "in-state tuition rates" like Rick Perry gives to ILLEGAL foriegners who have no right to live in MY country.
I dare you to look your fellow AMERICANS straight in the eye and tell the thousands of hard-working AMERICAN colleges students busting their @$$ and working mulitple jobs to pay their tutition..."tough luck, you can't have access to the tuition rates that Texas gives to foriegn criminals. We don't care how hard your AMERICAN parents worked to put you thru school. We don't care if live two miles across the Texas border and have lived in the region you want to attend college all your life. We don't care if went to H.S. in Texas or grew up in Texas. We don't care that your family lost their job during the recession. We don't care that you don't have access to those "minority" scholarships we reward to "underpriveldged hispanic minorities" solely on the basis of someone having a spanish-sounding last name. Here in Texas, we care more about 'afforable education' for foriengers that sneak into our country than our fellow Americans".
As for me, little miss daughter of an "undocumented" construction worker can go pound sand when so many TAXPAYING AMERICAN CITIZENS are struggling to get a quality college education, and I'd be glad to tell her that to her face. If she's such a bright gifted "straight A" student she could readily get accepted at a college or university in the nation she was born in. In fact, they NEED more people with college educations in those countries, that's one of the reason they're failing economically.
Hey motoman, since this is such a great idea, how about you start lobbying the Mexican government to give "in-state tuition rates" to americans who enter Mexico ILLEGALLY? Funny how we're the ONLY country stupid enough to enact this "great idea", isn't it?
If you did the same thing the illegals did, which is to go to a Texas school for three years, you *WOULD* get the exact same rate.
Your rhetoric, if ever allowed to be included in the Republican platform, would be used against the Republican party in the most vile and diabolical way by Obama and will seriously jeopardize our chances of shoveling him and his ilk out of our government.
Fact is, this is not a simple black and white issue. It is absolutely the wrong issue to put at the top of the Republican ticket. Candidates trying to kill Perry as the front runner are creating a landmine for for us if they prevail in their tactics.
All of the screaming and blow-back by the mass deportation and border fence crowds is extremely over the top and will kill our chances of winning the general election.
The following article provides some good perspective on the Texas law, which is no different than at least another dozen states, including yours, which have the same law currently in effect: