his butt from a biscut when it comes to border state attitudes.

It is true that in some cases, illegal labor seems to be necessary, and I would suggest that you contribute to that need. You see, there are jobs that we, as Americans, and due to the push of labor unions, deem beneath us to do. I will give you an example:

at one point in our recent history, if you needed your lawn mowed, you simply called your neighbor and their teen-aged son would come do it for a reasonable charge. How many teenagers do you know that even have jobs? When was the last time you had some 17 year old boy knock on your door asking if you had any work for him, like cutting your grass, cleaning out the gutters, hauling trash? Most think that their only responsibility is to go to school, make the team, and become experts at computer games. Why? Because their parents have convinced the little darlings that they are “above” such menial labor.

And at one time, if an American lost their job, they would do any type of work that provided a paycheck. Now, they feel they are entitled to unlimited unemployment benefits. I doubt if you lost your job you would be willing to take one that required you cleaning toilets and making beds after nasty people stayed in a hotel room for minimum wage. Would you be willing to hang onto the energy end of a shovel 8/10 hours a day, doing nothing but digging trenches and then filling them in?

As to New Hampshire: isn’t it 98% white? Seems like it is NH that has a problem, not Rick Perry. Are NH residents just trying to protect their lilly white demographics, fearing that those nasty Mexicans will invade their pure state? Sure sounds like it.

Texas, like at least 11 other states, passed in-state tuition for the children of illegals. Now, if you were really a bright fellow, you would know that about 70% of those children of illegals are born here, and hence CITIZENS, entitled to in-state tuition. And you would have realized that the Texas legislation came from a law suit, Texas vs. Certain Named and Unnamed Alien Children which was incorporated with Plyler. But I doubt that you bother much with research.

In Texas, we don’t punish kids for the crimes of their parents. We also understand that Hispanics have contributed much to our history, some dying at the Alamo, signing our first Constitution as a Republic, others giving their lives in every war we have ever fought. We, unlike NH, seems to have ditched the bigotry that you indicate is prominent in NH.

And really, who cares what a state that has less population than a mid-sized Texas city, thinks about anything?

is a self-inflicted gun shot wound.

Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn’t California give all social welfare benefits to illegals, no questions asked? Do you think that is not a draw since California is bleeding jobs?

And I think the number of illegals in California is closer to 5 million than 3 million. But hey, if I was a border jumper, and I wanted to make sure I would be given a place to live and food stamps, in the event I could not find a job, California would be my destination.

The state is 98% white. Even the black population is only 2/10th of a percent. Hispanics are so few they didn’t even register in the last NH census as a percentage. Now, if you want to argue that NH is not biased against illegals, then make that argument. But a state that has few minorities usually is not very friendly toward them.

And yes, the attitude of some states that are just now seeing an influx of minorities has a much different attitude than a state where certain ethic groups have ALWAYS been part of their demographic.

Rick Perry is right about one thing; there is no need to have any discussion about what to do with 12-20 million illegals until we have secure, closed borders. And there is no one who is currenly on the GOP ticket that has expanded the time, and state money, to do that like he has. But you seem to think that there is some magic formula that the U.S. can use that will cause all illegals to return to their native lands. I would be interested in knowing that that formula is.

So here are some questions for you:

how would you force those illegals to leave this country?

what would you do with their American born children since an American cannot be deported?

You see, the “round them all up” mentality doesn’t work, unless you are some kind of dictator who has the power and strength to do such a thing.

Now you seem to have a major problem with in-state tuition for kids who we Americans have been required to educate through the 12th grade (by SCOTUS ruling) and who have probably spent most of their lives here, if not their entire lives. So what is your plan? Keep them from getting a higher education so that they are reduced to being second class the rest of their lives? Let them know that no matter how hard they work, how well they assimilate, they will never be allowed to attend a college or university at in-state tuition, although their parents have been (unlike some welfare families) paying taxes to that state for years? And how far do you want to take it? If one of their parents commits another crime, perhaps robbery, do you want to punish the kids for that in the event the parent slips back across the border?

Perhaps you would rather have those kids, knowing they will never be accepted although the U.S. is the only home they have ever known, resort to crime? Because it is those very kids the drug cartels are recruiting.

Let’s say that the “wet foot, dry foot” policy had never been implemented for Cubans. Would you want Marco Rubio deported? Because if it were not for “wet foot, dry foot”, many Cubans, just like Marco Rubio, would be illegal.

So you come up with a rational, reasonable solution that doesn’t deport American citizens. I am more than willing to listen.

Illegal immigration is a problem, I am the first to admit that. But until the states themselves (like California who hands out welfare and other states who give them driver’s licenses) ends those practices, they will come. And they will come as long as Americans think that being a ditch diggers or a hotel maid is beneath them to work at. As long as there are jobs that Americans refuse to do, there will be some illegal who was making $5/day in Guatamala who will try to come here to earn that $7/hour.

Do you deny that NH is 98% white? Obviously, minorities don’t feel very welcome there or they would move there. Or is it perhaps because NH is not creating jobs that would cause minorities to want to live there? Or it is such a high tax state that people, of all races, discount it as a future home?

Frankly, I don’t care what is happening in NH. Obviously, nothing too important since I am not reading about how its taxes are being lowered and it is creating jobs like some of the southern states. And what does NH have? Maybe 2 electoral votes? Wow! Count me as not impressed.

Governor Perry was very clear in his stance, to those listening who had at least two grey cells bumping together. The in-state tuition issue is a STATE’S issue. Nothing less, nothing more. Unless you can find anywhere in the Constitution that says education is a FEDERAL issue. People in South Carolina are free to make their own decisions about their own tax payer supported universities. We, in Texas, would rather see these kids, who were brought here by their parents, without their permission, get a university education and become tay PAYERS, not tax SPONGES.

South Carolina has approximately 385,000 illegal immigrants in a state with a population of 9 1.2 million. How many people in South Carolina live in public housing? Can an illegal live in public housing in South Carolina? Get food stamps? GET A DRIVER’S LICENCE?

Frankly, if given a choice between a hard working illegal and a native born leech that will spend their entire life living off public welfare, I’ll take the hard working illegal.