Perry insults DREAM Act critics; nomination chances slipping away
Joe Guzzardi
Joe Guzzardi is a syndicated columnist and a senior writing fellow for Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS). He can be reached at JoeGuzzardi@CAPSweb.org
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Leon Ceniceros posted at 7:08 am on Tue, Sep 27, 2011.
Nooooooooooo....not another ...California Critic....who doesn't live in Arizona, doesn't vote in Arizona, doesn't drive in Arizona, doesn't pay taxes in Arizona...doesn't know ...Squat About Arizona.
Isn't it bad enough that we have the President of the United States flying all over the Country day in, day out....week in, week out,...month in, month out,...year in and year out...........Preaching....Preaching...Preaching (and now screaming at Us from his Pulpit....like his old mentor and Sunday Church Pastor....the Reverend Jeremiah Wright how is on "YouTube" shouting to the... dancing and clapping congregation..."not Gawd Bless America but....Gawd-Dam America" and "America ...deserved 9/11...it bombed Hiroshima...it bombed Nagasaki...America, your chickens are coming home to roost").
Why don't these ...Pro-Illegal Alien Amnesty Activists and or Left-Wing Socialist Democrat PresidentS.....just leave Arizona alone....we are doing fine (well the triple-digit tempuratures could go away for a while at least)...but ....otherwise...Arizona is A-OK... (Moderator Ted Simmon on the ASU-PBS Channel 8, KAET nightly program "Horizion" needs to stop ranting...."What's Wrong With Arizona" and instead focus on ....."What's Right with Arizona").
CooperG posted at 8:07 am on Tue, Sep 27, 2011.
Somehow I find it remarkably disingenuous for some guy from a California group who believes in eugenics, the superiority of European races (of which Spain and Portugal are parts of, by the way), and is a recognized hate group feels he is qualified to call Rick Perry out for standing up to the like-minded and uninformed neanderthals who boo sensible immigration policies.
Leadership means taking a stand when the "public" is wrong--even if it's a vocal minority. So, in this case, CAPS senior (as in old?) fellow Guzzardi needs to know that the vast majority of Americans agree with Perry and not him.
RationalHuman posted at 11:13 am on Tue, Sep 27, 2011.
"Guzzardi needs to know that the vast majority of Americans agree with Perry and not him. "
Care to back up that claim, CooperG?
While I agree that the vast majority of Americans probably agreed with Perry spending 34 million on a Prayer Day - I highly doubt you'd find that same majority in favor of giving entitlements (their tax money) to illegal alien criminals so they can go to college.
But hey, provide your credible evidence and prove me wrong! ;)
az2008 posted at 1:27 pm on Tue, Sep 27, 2011.
Perry and other politicians are just pandering to the Hispanic vote. It may backfire, but you never know. Remember how McCain lost *all* support after backing amnesty? Within 9 months he was the party's nominee for President.
That's what cracks me up about hot-headed Rs who insist it's the "socialist" Ds causing all the problems. McCain, Dole, Bush (I) all come to mind as milk-toast candidates. Even the R darlings like Perry aren't hardliners on the topic. For crying out loud, Reagan supported the largest amnesty in recent history. He signed it into law!
We need to start emphasizing the common working guy, not partisan rhetoric with simplistic labels to define the "out group."
Accuracy posted at 5:11 pm on Tue, Sep 27, 2011.
The DREAM Act (acronym for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) legislative proposal. And it was U.S. Senate Majority Leader Democrat Harry Reid who reintroduced the DREAM Act in the Senate this year on May 11, 2011. Note: for "Alien Minors". Democrats say the DREAM Act would provide a future for young illegal immigrants who right now cannot work or go to school.
Keeping the heat on Rick Perry at the GOP debate in Orlando, Florida, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., challenged Perry's suggestion that people are heartless if they don't support his Texas law that gives some illegal immigrants in-state tuition rates at universities.
"We will not have taxpayer-subsidized benefits for illegal immigrants or their children," Bachmann said. She pledged to build a fence along the U.S.-Mexican border, a move that Perry opposes.
samkat posted at 5:20 pm on Tue, Sep 27, 2011.
cooper: You obviously are not aware that Spain ensured they populated every country they conquered with Spanish blood so if you are Hispanic, you undoubtedly have a fair share of European blood in you.
Sorry to burst your bubble twice but the majority of Americans do not agree with Perry in spending our scant education dollars on people who should not be here in the first place.
az2008 posted at 6:26 pm on Tue, Sep 27, 2011.
@samkat: """the majority of Americans do not agree with Perry in spending our scant education dollars on people who should not be here in the first place."""
I don't know about that. But, we do have a much larger problem that I believe a majority of Americans don't agree with: our freebie "citizenship by presence" (instead of the parents' citizenship) which makes us unique among industrialized nations. Google for "jus soli"
The problem of illegal-immigrant children is confounded by their parents bringing them here to have legal children. IMO, there is a very reasonable argument that relatives of US citizens who were brought here against their will are significantly different than your average adult who enters illegally of his own volition.
This condition of illegals related to citizens (children born to illegals) is a huge problem. Mexicans drain our welfare system. Pro-illegal immigration advocates say welfare doesn't pay benefits to illegals. But, this is lying by omission. The welfare system will pay benefits to the US citizen child -- and that money goes to the child's caregivers who are illegals.
We aren't going to fix this problem until we join the rest of the world and base citizenship upon the child's relationship to his parents (their citizenship). Being born on soil that you have no relationship to (and your parents entered illegally) is hardly a rational way to grant citizenship.
When we tackle that issue we'll see a lot of problems with illegal immigrants disappear. Many incentives to come here will disappear. And, we might have more incentive to grant temporary-worker visas (knowing it's not a passport to instant citizenship for children born to temporary workers).
Dale Whiting posted at 7:29 am on Wed, Sep 28, 2011.
Funny, isn't it. The last two Governors of Texas, George W. Bush and his former lieutenant, Rick Perry, both supported comprehensive immigration reform and legislation now characterized as the Dream Act.
Anyone out there care to take a bit of this apple?
RationalHuman posted at 6:04 pm on Wed, Sep 28, 2011.
It's not funny Dale...but it's not surprising, either.
Both Bush and Perry are so ignorant and uneducated as to be barely functionable.
But you already knew that. ;)
Masterrogue666 posted at 7:03 am on Thu, Sep 29, 2011.
Leon: Actually, Joe Guzzardi is one of the few EVT columnists that is against ILLEGAL ALIENS. Further, his group is for less legal immigration until something's done about the ILLEGAL SIDE of immigration.
CooperG: You are wrong again. Don't you ever get tired of using the "race" card even though it's not warranted? Actually CAPS is for "replacement-level" immigration, and does so "without regard to race, ethnicity, or national origin."
Hey CooperG, what does the term "LA RAZA" translate into in ENGLISH? EVERYONE KNOWS: "THE RACE". Now, if that isn't racist, I don't know what is....
Masterrogue666 posted at 7:06 am on Thu, Sep 29, 2011.
Dale: That was then, this is now. The MAJORITY of citizens of the USA is tired of the entitlement attitude of ILLEGAL ALIENS and their supporters. What ever happened to EARNING what you get?