Posted on 09/21/2014 2:20:19 PM PDT by bestintxas
At an event today at the University of Texas Austin campus, Texas Governor Rick Perry reaffirmed his support of allowing illegal immigrant students to pay in-state tuition at Texas colleges and universities, while U.S. citizens from other states continue to pay higher out-of-state tuition rates. Perry made his remarks in a "One-on-One Conversation" with Texas Tribune CEO and Editor-in-Chief Evan Smith at the Texas Tribune Festival, an annual event organized by the online media outlet. Breitbart Texas made several queries to Governor Perry's press office for comment, but as of press time, had not received a reply. A UT student asked Perry a question inspired by a Tribune Festival panel from the previous day titled "What to do with DREAMers," referring to the children who were brought here by their parents without legal immigration status and want to attend public state universities. The student mentioned that Perry had signed a law granting in-state tuition to illegal immigrants and asked if he was still in support of that law, and also asked why Republicans had moved away from supporting this issue.
The law in question, HB 1403, was signed into law by Perry on June 16, 2001 and allows undocumented immigrant students who have lived in Texas at least three years and have a Texas high school diploma or GED equivalent to qualify for in-state tuition if they sign an affidavit that they intend to apply for permanent residency status as soon as they can.
HB 1403 passed by a substantial majority vote in both chambers of the Texas legislature with only four dissenting votes, but has been criticized since then as being one of the "magnets" that encourages people to enter the United States illegally. Perry defended the law six years later in an interview
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Many of Perry's supporters are pro-ILLEGAL themselves. I realized that long ago. They're using La Raza Rick to advance their own pro-ILLEGAL alien agenda. No legitimate argument can be made that the man is conservative and no legitimate argument can be made why he should be POTUS.
Same here on paying UT tuition and encouraging our kids to work to make the Top 10. You think UT was hard to get into then, it’s now only the top 8%. Because they’re special and claimed they’d have to do away with Longhorn football if they didn’t have some room for low IQ atheletes with full ride scholarships. Raise your hand if you believe for a minute there would no longer be football at UT. What a crock. FYI, our kiddo’s randomly assigned dorm roommate was an illegal from Brownsville on a full ride scholarship while we had to sacrifice and kiddo had to get a part time job.
apples and oranges
Also:
In 2001, the House (which at the time had a 78-72 Democratic majority) voted 142-1 in favor. The Senate, with a 16-15 Republican majority, voted 27-3 to pass it.
Perry could not veto a majority bill from the legislature.
So, technically, if people want to bitch about it:
Put the blame where it belongs - on the Texas Legislature who passed the damn bill. Not Perry.
Thanks Mom tell it to South 40.
Won’t do any good. Been there done that.
Some here would rather have a democrat for president.
Gov. Rick talks the talk, but doesn’t walk the walk.
Forget him.
He thought we would forget. He pulled that PR stunt of putting the Nat’l Guard on the border...not giving them permission to actually stop them from coming over. It was strictly a political stunt. A lot of commenters fell for it, too. Very disappointing.
Regardless what support this pro-ILLEGAL alien bill had in the legislature Perry did not have to support it, but he did. And he does to this day, 13 years later and is critical of conservatives who do not.
No, we would rather have a conservative, something Rick Perry is not.
You are right. He can call himself a Conservative, but that doesn’t make him one. Remember his attempt to force mandatory Gardasil on young kids? I do.
Yes it was, but if fooled the foolish. I noticed some of his liberal supporters here at FR were very vocal on that topic while staying conveniently silent when he endorsed for reelection the man who has waged war on the TEA Party, Mitch McConnell. They were silent also when he said Hillary was a "Great Secretary of State". But they came of of hiding when Perry threw them a bone with his useless stunt. Quite telling, I would say.
That is a good point, dalebert. Bravo.
You are wrong
All Texan kids know hot a proven and reiterated fact that they do not only not get tuition payments in the same realm but that Mexicans and Latinos get preference on admissions and scholarships
Every time an application or a yeah registration is filled out every time a teacher treats a Latino/a better and gives leeway to the Mexican for cheating, every time a higher achiever in class doesn’t get into UT but the Mexican girl who does not come near him academically does get in, everyone in school is well aware
The people running this especially rick perry not only are wrong and ought to be ashamed but what do they think they are creating ?
Are Mexicans better workers, engineers, doctors, managers, language specialists?
No the Mexican parents are fine with this while smashing our language borders and culture
I don’t know why they’re picking on our kids who will be getting no breaks on paying back this debt. But the kids are beaten down discouraged and unmotivated
And when there’s a party with kids from school. And it’s just the Mexican girls going, don’t think the kids don’t say nah, I’m not going it’s just the Mexican mafia girls going and they won’t speak English just for m
If you think this was normal ops for immigrant cities like new uork back in the day guess again. This is a colony
And Texas will change
The illegal parents are responsible for the kid’s tuition. Not American kid’s parents.
Call Perry.
Not at all. You said FEDERAL LAW (all caps) required it as if that made it right. I pointed out how wrong you were.
Perry is not a disappointment. He has always been a weasel like this
That’s probably accurate. SCOTUS is all about the appearance of no separate classes.
Mexican illegal parents are responsible for none of this. Not the train riders and not the many escalade driving mafia wives
Our kids are responsible
Perry says so, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops says so, the academic institutions do, wimpy texans do and all of Perry’s and the democrat supporters say so
Factually our kid deserve everything. But liberals don’t see it that way. Somehow they are in charge and of both parties
Residency not citizenship seems to be the test for the statute in question.
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