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Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told voters who support deporting children covered under the DREAM Act that he didn't want their vote. "I'm excited about giving you a chance to live the rest of your life" in America, Graham said of DREAMers. "I embrace you, and I want you to succeed," he said, speaking at a press conference with Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.).

Don't call Texas Gov. Rick Perry soft on immigration, said the chair of his state's Democratic Party. "His anti-Latino record, I think, speaks for itself," said Texas Democratic leader Boyd Richie during a visit to the New Hampshire Democratic Party headquarters Friday. "To say that he's soft on immigration is just flat wrong." The Texas governor has been soundly pummeled by conservatives for his support of a 2001 bill that granted in-state college tuition to the children of some illegal immigrants.... Richie said in an interview Friday that he gave the governor credit for passing the bill - a move...

Texas schools perform horribly according to standardized testing. But it's not for the reasons liberals want you to believe. It's because RINO politicians have cratered to radical anti-American leftists over a desperately misguided "multicultural" program misleadingly named "Bilingual education." As practiced in Texas, biligual education is the practice of keeping students with Hispanic surnames, whether they know English or not, in segregated classrooms where they receive no opportunity to learn English. The result is a massively high dropout rate, and the complete inability to learn. In 2010, the Center for Education Policy of the Texas Public Policy Foundation issued this...

“Interviewing Rick Perry On Illegal Immigration” October 6, 2011 John Hawkins recently interviewed Governor Rick Perry about border security, illegal immigration, and his record as governor.On the Federal DREAM Act: The federal DREAM Act is an amnesty bill, and I strongly oppose amnesty. The Texas educational residency bill was vastly different.Because the federal government has failed in its basic duty to protect our borders, states are forced to deal with illegal immigrant issues.In Texas, we had to deal with the children of illegal immigrants residing in our state and attending our schools, as the federal government requires states to educate...

Rick Perry will be the next President of the United States if I have anything to do with it. Who am I? I’m a mom, a doctor, a business owner, a former Michigander, Californian and New Yorker, a conservative with a libertarian streak, a Tea Party attender and reporter, a blogger, an activist, and for 14 years, a Texan.

As I've written before, Governor Rick Perry is for border control and has the record to prove it, in spite of very unique challenges in Texas. Unfortunately, the Federal government which has the Constitutional duty to protect our borders has refused to fund the necessary manpower and equipment and has also been negligent in identifying, arresting, and deporting illegal aliens. Governor Perry has focused on border security to control illegal invasion in the first place, both in Texas and the greater United States. He advocates what he calls “boots on the ground:" patrolling the border, with agents, planes, drones, and...