2012 ELECTION

[HairOfTheDog]

I didn't see the entire debate so I'm only going to comment on what I did see & what has stuck in my mind.

Rick Perry suggests that we help illegals get educated, he thinks they deserve a discount on tuition which after four years comes to eighty eight thousand dollars or more. My parents spent tens of thousands of dollars educating me & my brothers, a couple of my brothers got partial sports scholarships because they bought some talent to the school but other than that the funds came directly from our parents. What the fuck part of ILLEGAL are people not getting. Unfortunately, that comment alone has turned me off him completely. Fuck him. He had the amazing audacity to say that people who don't agree with him & his suggestion are heartless.

Perry's stance on illegal immigration bothers me too. He says we can't really talk about the issue until fences and border patrol are erected around the borders (other candidates also seem to want to avoid the issue of illegals that are already here as well). Perry's record indicates that he has always supported the fences and increased border control. But, at the same time, some of his policies as Governor of Texas appear to offer illegals enticements. He is inconsistent on this key issue, imo.


Perry’s first immigration-related move as governor was likely his most controversial: In 2001, Texas became the first state in the nation to grant in-state college tuition rates and financial aid to immigrant children, regardless of their legal status. In 2009, roughly 1 percent of Texas college students — about 12,000 students — benefited from the law.

Two years later, Perry joined forces with Vicente Fox, then the president of Mexico, to advocate for reforms to guest worker laws. Faced with immigration questions from Lou Dobbs on CNN in 2003, Perry said Texas had a “close, complex” relationship with Mexico, and that businesses relied on immigrants for affordable labor. To that end, Perry has split with the platform of the Texas Republican Party, asserting that an Arizona-style immigration enforcement law — in which authorities are required to question people about their legal status — is not a good fit for Texas.

snipped from:
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-people...publicans/