NYTimes.com: " ... the deeply visceral issue of illegal immigration has shown that geography sometimes trumps ideology in politics: as governor of a border state with a large Hispanic population and entwined cultural identities, Mr. Perry (governor of Texas) has a more moderate, nuanced position than his rivals.
The governor shepherded, with bipartisan support, the 2001 legislation in Texas letting the undocumented children of illegal immigrants pay in-state tuition for higher education, and he has been opposed to a fence the length of the Texas-Mexico border.
But these issues are potentially treacherous for Mr. Perry in early-nominating states — Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina — where the populations are largely non-Hispanic but keenly aware of a growing number of immigrants."
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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