Thanks for reiterating the fact that in Texas, Americans in 45 other states are second class citizens to illegals.
But it does allow the illegals a path to legal citizenship. Basically, you want to pay in-state tuition, you need to become legal also. So, you go to high school for 3 years, you sign up to get legal, you can pay in-state tuition.
Seriously? That is what you are mad about? That Texas doesn't grant in-state tuition rates to non-state residents? So Texas should give in-state rates to non-tax payers in your book? And do you require that all 50 states should do the same for Texans as well? Texas has no state income tax so our colleges are supported with property and sales taxes that illegals here DO pay. We can't kick them out, we have to educate them, we have to provide them medical care and we gave them an incentive to come out of the shadows, tell the USCIS that they are here, change their status and start contributing to the state they are otherwise a draw on and you're mad because people who contribute nothing to the State of Texas have to pay more to get educated by the State of Texas?
Give me a break! You do understand that getting a college degree in Texas will never benefit an illegal, they can't use it. The only people who can are the ones who can change their status and the majority of the people swimming across the Rio Grande are not going to be able to get their status changed. This benefits those who are here that entered the country legally but have over stayed their visas or lost their jobs, or many other reasons why they have become illegal, many of whom are simply waiting their turn for the USCIS to get around to them and that can take forever since 9/11. You should do some research into the issue instead of assuming Rick Perry is standing at the Rio Grande with a towel and a UT Catalogue. Regardless of what Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and now Herman Cain want you to believe, you can not fence the Rio Grande, it is the US Government's fault people are flooding across our border and they are not doing it to get a $151 discount at our Jr. Colleges.
Take heart Fred.
In Pa, Texans don't get in-state tuition. That teaches 'em.