Altura, as a Texan and supporter of Perry, do you think that needle can be threaded ? Is that the real concern of Perry/Rubio, or just deference to less expensive labor. What say you ?
I honestly don’t know if a candidate should get very deeply into that right now.
There is such visceral hatred among many conservatives for illegals that almost spreads over onto all hispanics.
Perry’s very mild attempts to justify doing something that was actually very minor for children of illegals... i.e. allowing them to pay instate tuition ... was a turnoff for so many people.
No matter how we explained that it was not free tuition, that there were many criteria that had to be met before the kids were eligible... that it might have an ultimate benefit by turning those kids into tax paying citizens.
Nothing could overcome the automatic hatred and the sentiment for doing nothing, nothing nice for the childrenof illegals.
So, I would just shut up about it and do it quietly.
Because many people DO NOT have a heart when it comes to children of illegals.
We don’t punish children of rapists or murderers or children of people in prison for various crimes but we want to punish children whose parents crime was coming here illegally.
This is not to say in any way that I like illegal immigration. I don’t.
It should be stopped at the border.