Posted on 09/30/2011 1:51:37 PM PDT by martosko
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele told The Daily Caller that it was a “very conservative” decision for 2012 Republican presidential candidate Gov. Rick Perry of Texas to give in-state college tuition rates to illegal immigrant students.
“I think it is actually fairly conservative to look at, very conservative, to look at solving the problem in a way that empowers people, gives them opportunities to get out of harms way — fiscally or whatever — and to move the state forward,” he told TheDC during an interview in Washington on Friday.
You mean the ones the FEDERAL government ignores? States should ignore them too.
They would go back to Mexico (or where ever) if there were no welfare for illegals.
dittos
You don’t understand - The US government requires you to feed them, educate them and provide medical care with no questions asked. Your state does that too. Perry didn’t come up with that.
Adorable! especially since it is soooo against the law!
Preibus and Romney are in the same jumpsuit. What makes you so comfortable having either of those two yahoos jumping up and spouting nonsense?
Conservative?
We’ve definitly entered 1984 territory.
“War is peace, freedon is slavery, ignorance is strength.” - 1984, Orwell
Michael Steele claims one must buy his book
to be a real ‘conservative’.
bump
Perry plan stinks. It encourages illegal behavior and punishes the legal citizens.
Exactly. If the feds hold all the cards and deny you all reasonable tools to do something, you still gotta deal with it.
and if the illegal residents of Texas are taxpayers whose kids graduated after 3 yrs of public school there - then what?
The Dream Act requires the parents show proof of having paid taxes
What about legal residents of Texas who pay no tax?
The thing is, education is not a federal matter. We should close the Education Department, they don’t educate ANYONE. The federal law is invalid, because the feds don’t run the schools. Besides, states don’t have to enforce federal law, isn’t that what the pro-illegals keep telling us??
Well, like I said. If the states don’t have to enforce immigration laws, then states don’t have to enforce those federal laws either.
He is conservative in many of of his social views
“Man of the Year” in his Catholic parish
Liberals threw oreos at him during his campaign for MD Lt Governor
I heard him speak in his early years and he was solid. Very sound.
He was probably more socially conservative than his stem-cell destroying governor Robert Ehrlich
However heading RNC was above his Peter Principle and he flamed out
I am not thrilled with Perry’s defense on this, but I will offer a little defense on this issue of my own from my understanding. A person from New Mexico would get the same tuition rate if they also attended three years of Texas high school. No one qualifies if they just hop on into Texas and enroll in the colleges. These are people who lived in Texas, attended high school (presumably also state-funded in most every case), and are pursuing citizenship.
Now, I am not clear how ‘pursuing citizenship’ is defined or enforced, but I don’t see the Texas legislators supporting something overwhelmingly that doesn’t clearly define that qualification.
I agree with you but most of those are federal mandates. Perry had no control over them and the instate tuition passed the legislature with 175 “yes” votes and 4 “no” votes. This has been passed in many other states.
The current guy I’m sure is an establishment hack, but he’s not there on TV embarrassing us every week at least.
Why didn’t he veto it then? Then I read where in the debate he thought it was a good thing to do? How can the fed’s mandate against the Constitution? Oh, wait .... okay I get it.
So what will Perry do as President to change those FEDERAL immigration laws?
I think everyone should pay the same rate and that rate should cover the entire cost of College. If they can’t deport them then at least take their money.
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