tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21674624.post7822724064089057342..comments2024-02-21T05:16:22.788-05:00Comments on Two Weeks Notice: A Latin American Politics Blog: Immigration and citizenshipGreg Weekshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15765114859595124082noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21674624.post-87950434995432853742011-08-15T19:12:39.711-04:002011-08-15T19:12:39.711-04:00This is the favorite for Gamblers and Bettors to b...<b>This is the favorite for Gamblers and Bettors to be Republican Nominee :</b><br /><br />Rick Perry : "We must say to every Texas child learning in a Texas classroom : we don’t care where you come from, but where you are going, and we are going to do everything we can to help you get there. And that vision must include the children of undocumented workers"<br />.<br />Rick Perry continues : "That’s why Texas took the national lead in allowing such deserving young minds to attend a Texas college at a resident rate. Those young minds are a part of a new generation of leaders, the doors of higher education must be open to them. The message is simple: educacion es el futuro, y si se puede"<br /><br /><br />TownHall.com<br />Rick Perry: Secure the Border, It's a War Zone<br />By Katie Pavlich<br />August 15, 2011<br /><br /><br />http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2011/08/15/rick_perry_secure_the_border,_its_a_war_zone<br /><br /><br />Some excerpts :<br /><br />However, as Tom Tancredo pointed out in a recent Politico Op-Ed, Perry may have a strong border security stance, his illegal immigration policy stances are questionable.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />“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.]<br /><br />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.”<br /><br />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.”<br /><br />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.”<br /><br />Numbers USA, a group that supports immigration control, gives Perry a “D-“ for his positions supporting amnesty, open borders, and opposing border security.<br /><br />And Kerry Picket of the Washington Times asks: Do Conservatives Want Perry's DREAM Act too?<br /><br />In the midst of a number of conservatives believing Governor Rick Perry, Texas Republican, is the GOP's answer to taking on President Barack Obama, squishy aspects of Mr. Perry's background are being overlooked. As a border state governor, Mr. Perry signed state immigration law in 2001 known as the Texas DREAM Act. Here is an excerpt from a speech Governor Perry gave during the border summit in August of 2001:<br />.Defensores de Democraciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01990488344886411353noreply@blogger.com