Rick Perry let illegals pay in-state tuition, opposes mandatory use of E-Verify and is against a border fence

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Perry not a true conservative

By: Tom Tancredo

August 11, 2011

... one area where Perry’s positions are virtually identical to Bush is immigration.

When I ran for president in 2008, I tried to pressure the Republican candidates to take a hard line against illegal immigration. For this, Perry called me a racist.

When he first took office as governor in 2001, Perry went to Mexico and bragged about his law that granted “the children of undocumented workers” special in-state tuition at Texas colleges, the first state in the nation to do so.

“The message is simple,” Perry concluded, “educacion es el futuro, y si se puede.” Education is the future, and (echoing Cesar Chavez’s slogan) yes we can.]

Just a few weeks ago, Perry defended his decision to give in-state tuition to illegal immigrants. He said “to punish these young Texans for their parents’ actions is not what America has always been about.”

Perry opposed Arizona’s tough anti-illegal immigration law SB 1070. “I have concerns,” he explained, “with portions of the law passed in Arizona and believe it would not be the right direction for Texas.”

He spoke out last year against using E-Verify to prevent illegal immigrants from getting jobs as state employees, who get their paychecks from the taxpayers. He insisted it “would not make a hill of beans’ difference.”

Numbers USA, a group that supports immigration control, gives Perry a “D-“ for his positions supporting amnesty, open borders, and opposing border security.

Perry, in a speech in Mexico in 2007, said he supports completely open borders, calling for the “free flow of individuals between these two countries who want to work and want to be an asset to our country and to Mexico.”

In the same speech he came out against building a fence along the U.S.-Mexican border. Perry also came out in favor of blanket amnesty for illegal immigrants in 2006, albeit without citizenship, supporting “a guest worker program that takes undocumented workers off the black market and legitimizes their economic contribution.”

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Perry’s only true conservative positions on borders involve calling for an end to sanctuary cities and signing a voter ID law.

[Pooky 3,880]

All of which are good reasons not to vote for him.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

He's getting more flak from the right than from the left.

[Zero Sum 305]

Weird... does this account for his success with jobs in Texas?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Weird... does this account for his success with jobs in Texas?

Nah, one out of three of them were gubmint jobs. That's not gonna sit well with the right either.

[mawilson 2,133]

He's getting more flak from the right than from the left.

The left don't even have to attack him. He's Bush 2.0.

[Pooky 3,880]

The left don't even have to attack him. He's Bush 2.0.

Another good reason not to vote for him.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

The left don't even have to attack him. He's Bush 2.0.

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — [pauses] — shame on you. Fool me — [pauses] — You can't get fooled again.

[Zero Sum 305]

Nah, one out of three of them were gubmint jobs. That's not gonna sit well with the right either.

Imagine that. At least the 'right' would be happy with so many of those jobs being minimum wage positions. Kudos thought o the 'a job is better than no job' reasoning though.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Sometimes I just want to scream in light of all the ignorance present in this country.

Why is it that people believe that a country that put a man on the moon, spends over $1,000,000,000,000.00--and counting--on the war in Afghanistan alone (!!!) is unable to secure its borders and deport intruders? I mean, really?

The fact is, no U.S. politician, republicans and democrats alike, wants to do that. With very few exceptions they are all representatives of the Corporate Party of America, and this party needs illegal immigrants not only for cheap labor and exploitation purposes, but also for political gains. Like gays, abortion, stem cell research, and other issues that have no impact on the overwhelming majority of the American people, illegal immigration is great food for distraction from the real issues, such as the economy or the ever widening gap between the riches and the have-nots.

If I were President, I need only 0.1% of what we already spent on the war in Afghanistan alone and I would not only make the Mexico/U.S border near darn inpenetrable, but mandate e-Verify and implement other laws requiring proof of lawful presence on so many levels that illegal aliens would be unemployable and unable to really "live" in the U.S. so that they would self-deport. Super easy.

But that's not the objective at all.

Thus Perry, like Obama and every other politician on the Corporate Party's payroll has to do what their owners tell 'em to do. It's really that simple.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

All of which are good reasons not to vote for him.

+1

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Imagine that. At least the 'right' would be happy with so many of those jobs being minimum wage positions. Kudos thought o the 'a job is better than no job' reasoning though.

The minimum wage positions are the remainder of the total job creation less gubmint jobs and the few in oil and gas exploration. You know you gotta hire some more folk to flip the burgers that gubmint employees and folks in the energy resource sector consume. Perry shed jobs in manufacturing (-22%) and in IT (-33%). Those damn jobs just paid too damn well or required an actual education which Texas can't be bothered to provide.