Wednesday, September 14, 2011

REALITY OF RICK PERRY'S JOBS SUCCESS IN TEXAS: VIVA LA RAZA???

PERRY LOVES TO TAUT ALL THE JOBS IN TEXAS. HE WON’T BE OPENING HIS MOUTH ABOUT THE FACT THESE JOBS PAY MISERABLE WAGES AND ARE HELD BY “CHEAP” LABOR ILLEGALS!
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THE REALITY FOR JOE LEGAL, v JOSE ILLEGAL:
(BUT JOE LEGAL STILL GETS THE TAX BILLS TO PAY FOR JOSE ILLEGAL’S LA RAZA WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS)
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/joe-american-legal-vs-la-raza-jose.html


On Immigration -- Perry Loses Big in Florida Debate -- Romney, Bachman (Gov. Perry was booed)
On Immigration -- Perry Loses Big in Florida Debate -- Romney & Bachmann Hold Ground

By Roy Beck, Updated Monday, September 12, 2011

(Further down are Roy's live blogs while listenting to the Tea Party/CNN-sponsored debate tonight in Florida. First, though, is Roy's overall analysis at the end of the debate. As always, our only interest in this debate is immigration.)

Gov. Perry was booed as he painted himself into an even tighter corner tonight as a candidate who boasts of offering incentives for illegal immigration and who apparently can't imagine illegal aliens ever going home. Attacked by several candidates for his position, he didn't back off a bit.

Quite a number of mainstream media commentators and editorialists have lauded Perry for supposedly appealing to Hispanic voters by rejecting rank-and-file Republicans' distaste for illegal immigration.

Former Sen. Santorum opened the in-state tuition issue when asked what candidates would do to seek Hispanic votes. He said it appeared that Perry thought the answer was offering in-state tuition for illegal aliens, with which Santorum made it clear he does not agree.

Perry responded that he was proud that Texas offers in-state tuition to illegal aliens regardless of how they got here because that is the "American way."

That brought the most direct attack on his position by Rep. Bachmann. She suggested that rewarding illegal behavior most decidedly is NOT the American way and was similar to Pres. Obama's own promotion of DREAM Act types of rewards for illegal immigration.

Perry objected that what he did in Texas did not involve amnesty, which is what the DREAM Act is. He was right about that. In-state tuition is part of the DREAM Act but a rather small part of a bill that would provide citizenship and permanent work permits to a couple million illegal aliens. He would have been wise to let it go at that, but he came back a couple minutes later and painted himself in a much worse light.

Perry claimed that what he did on in-state tuition was a state's rights issue. If another state wants to do something different, then that is fine with him. Well, actually, Congress has long made it against federal law for a state to offer in-state tuition to illegal aliens . . . UNLESS that state offers in-state tuition to U.S. citizens who live in other states. Texas does not treat legal citizens of other states as well as it treats illegal aliens in this regard and, thus, is in violation of federal law. Neither the Bush nor Obama Justice Departments has been willing to go after outlaw states like Texas on this account.

But it got worse.

Perry said Texas had a choice of either helping illegal aliens who want to contribute to get a college education or have to pay for them on the public dole. His statement indicated that the public has no choice but to subsidize these illegal aliens either through college tuition or on some form of welfare. Nowhere was there a recognition that another option would be for illegal aliens to go home.

As usual, former Gov. Romney provided the broadest view on immigration, saying that of course you don't give in-state tuition and other rewards to people who have broken immigration laws. He scolded GOP candidates who don't recognize that a central tenet of the Republican Party is a support for the rule of law. He said that appealing to Hispanic voters by supporting law-breaking is the wrong approach. Instead, Romney said, the appeal should be to what Hispanic Americans already know and that is that they are looking for opportunity.

Thus far, about the only positive thing on immigration that we have heard from Perry is his support for border security -- as long as it doesn't require too much fencing. But we've seen no recognition that nearly half of illegal aliens came to the country legally. No amount of border security can deal with them. Perry has bad-mouthed E-Verifying new hires to keep from employing illegal aliens. It is disheartening that even though commentators for weeks have suggested that Perry has a big job to persuade Americans that he is not another George Bush on immigration, he really hasn't provided any reason to believe otherwise.

But the rest of the candidates tonight provided little reason to be hopeful, either.

No candidate showed any sign of being able to use the immigration issue to appeal to 22 million Americans who are unable to find a full-time job. Nobody brought up the massive foreign-worker importation currently underway when asked how they would improve the economic circumstances of Americans. In fact, former Gov. Huntsman again talked about wanting more immigration. And Santorum again bragged about his immigrant roots and "immigration is an important lifeblood of this country . . . I believe in immigration."

When asked from the audience how they would move illegal aliens out of the country, not a single candidate thought to mention attrition through enforcement, especially by taking away their jobs.

Wolf Blitzer did throw the candidates off soon after the question was asked by inserting a tweet question about how to appeal to Latino voters. It almost seemed like Blitzer wanted to make sure nobody gave a serious answer about reducing the illegal population. But no candidate was able to stay focused on the fact that there is an answer for the 11 million illegal aliens that is not mass amnesty and that is not mass deportation -- and that is attrition through enforcement.

We did not hear from Paul, Gingrich or Cain on immigration. If they had felt strongly and wanted to be known as having a position, they could have spoken up and demanded a chance to answer. None did, that I could see.

On immigration tonight, Perry and Huntsman lose big. Santorum seems all about "illegal bad but lots of legal immigration good." Bachmann and Romney stand out as champions of the rule of law. The others appeared to not care. All of them failed to show real compassion for the millions of unemployed Americans by relating immigration policy to jobs.

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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/09/american-poverty-vs-mexicos-solution.html
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/09/california-poverty-rate-rises-in-2010.html

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