Perry sounds like the far left ethnocentrists from La Raza when he questions the motivations of those who properly, logically and morally oppose in-state tuition for illegal aliens.

Need I remind Perry that according to a new Rasmussen poll, 81% of Americans oppose in-state tuition for illegals. I even heard Perry's supporter Bobby Jindal strongly say yesterday that he disagrees with Perry on this.

This, along with Perry's opposition to E-verify and Arizona's law, is the reason that I will not support him.

I'm glad you brought this up, I thought it was a disgusting smear by Perry to paint people opposed to granting subsidized college tuition to illegal aliens as racism.

So if an American citizen who served in the US Armed Forces moved from Colorado to Texas he would pay more than an illegal alien that crossed over our border illegally.

But Perry is a super awesome conservative, so how dare we question his credentials.

Ten years ago, Georgia made the Hope Scholarship available to all who graduated from a Georgia High Schhol with a 3.0. Eventually that ceased. Now, undocs are not even allowed entrance to the flagship universities.
I pretty much agree with Perry, but don't know how to do it without encouraging undocs.
However, truth be told, we probably want those who would be admitted to our flagships.

I'm a bit surprised that this policy and especially his comments from that debate haven't raised more eyebrows. He pandered about as gratuitously as you can pander. In fact, that's EXACTLY the kind of line that you'd expect from La Raza.

Plyler v. Doe was a horrible judicial decision. Terrible. But, in some regards, policies like this one are even worse because we're talking (largely) about the behavior of adults, not elementary school children.

Over the last decade, we have put hundreds and hundreds of thousands of 18-21-year olds in theaters of combat; Many of them there because they were/are trying to establish the financial wherewithal to eventually attend college. And at the same time, American tax-payers are footing the bill, in some cases entirely, for adults, of the same age, to attend American colleges and universities while they're breaking US law.

It's sickening.

1) Gov. Perry didn't grant financial aid. He granted in-state tuition.

2) The bill passed overwhelmingly in the TX state legislature.

3) Perry has no where suggested that this would be his national immigration policy.

4) What is your alternate proposal for dealing with children of illegal aliens? Round them up and send them home? Let them roam the streets?

A familiar Dallas-ite entering the fray? Good to see you pipe up.

The Latino vote doesn't just count in Texas, Joseph. The Latino population is powerful all over the U.S.

I think this is right. I understand the reflexive hesitancy of some political pundits/handlers/operators to take on illegal immigration in any substantive way. The demographics, after all, speak for themselves.

But, just because the conversation is uncomfortable and may have some deleterious effects in the near-term, doing nothing about it - or God forbid, actually embracing a plan that includes ANY form of amnesty - is suicidal. Amnesty would create a permanent governing majority for the Dems on a national basis, ceding control of both houses of Congress as well as the White House, and our four most populated states - CA, TX, NY & FL - would be lost to the Dems for the foreseeable future. It would be disastrous.

You need only ask yourself the question, is there any South American or Central American country that you would really like to live in - not visit - but live there?

We're definitely on the same sheet of music here.

Immigrant groups have, for the last three or four generations, generally voted Democrat. And, they continue to vote Democrat for some time. Just look at the impact that the Irish Catholic immigrants in the early 1920 had on their political system. In places like MA, RI and parts of NY, that impact continues today, almost 100-years later.

With Latin American immigrants, I believe that dynamic will be exacerbated or amplified from where it has always traditionally been. The reason: Television, both entertainment and news.

In one of our last debate, we had a "guest moderator" who had to ask a question about immigration. And where did that guest come from? He came from a NATIONAL Spanish Speaking US network.

We are creating a Balkinization of the US, and it's going to create TREMENDOUS problems in the coming decades. Mass immigration presents the host country with significant problems when there is robust assimilation. Think about the problems that will emerge when there isn't robust assimilation.