{"id":912,"date":"2012-10-07T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/07\/perrys-right-on-in-state-tuition-veto-threat"},"modified":"2012-10-07T01:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T01:25:00","slug":"perrys-right-on-in-state-tuition-veto-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"Perry\u2019s right on in-state tuition veto threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I don\u2019t agree much with Texas Gov. Rick Perry\u2019s view of the world.<br \/>But he\u2019s right to insist that children of Texans who are here\u00a0illegally \u2013 the young people who\u2019ve lived in Texas virtually all their lives \u2013 deserve to pay in-state tuition costs when they go to public colleges and universities in Texas.<br \/>Recall that when Perry was running for president early this year, he got pilloried by his hard-nosed Republican opponents for sticking up for those young people. But he stayed true to his principles even at the expense of many of those who supported his presidential bid.<br \/>I wasn\u2019t one of them, even though I admired his stance on that single issue at the time \u2013 and I\u2019m in his corner now as he threatens to veto legislation next year that might seek to end that benefit for some of our resident Texans.<br \/>Perry sounds much like his predecessor as governor, George W. Bush \u2013 and even like the president of the United States whose job he sought \u2013 when he stands up for those who are Americans in virtually conceivable way. All they lack is citizenship \u2013 or legal immigrant \u2013 documentation. <br \/>Is that their fault? Is it their fault that they were brought to Texas as children by parents who sought work? No. Perry\u2019s in-state tuition view reminds me a good bit of President Obama\u2019s decision to cease deporting younger illegal immigrants, those who were brought to this country when they were children and who have grown up as Americans. <br \/>The 2013 Texas Legislature \u2013 which is controlled by Perry\u2019s Republican Party \u2013 is likely to try powering through some legislation that seeks to crack down on those prospective college students. The Texas governor, who doesn\u2019t possess much actual power, does have the veto pen at his disposal. He needs to uncap it and have it ready if and when that bill reaches his desk.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t agree much with Texas Gov. Rick Perry\u2019s view of the world.But he\u2019s right to insist that children of Texans who are here\u00a0illegally \u2013 the young people who\u2019ve lived in Texas virtually all their lives \u2013 deserve to pay in-state tuition costs when they go to public colleges and universities in Texas.Recall that when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=912\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perry\u2019s right on in-state tuition veto threat<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}