Texas Lieutenant governor hopefuls vow repeal of immigrant tuition break

By Robert Garrett, Dallas Morning News

AUSTIN — The four major Republican candidates for lieutenant governor all want to repeal the state law allowing those in the country illegally to pay in-state tuition rates, clashing with Gov. Rick Perry and complicating GOP efforts to woo Hispanics.

Perry famously said in a presidential debate that anyone who opposed the policy was heartless. But GOP candidates for the state’s No. 2 job are pushing a repeal to woo conservative voters. During and after a Houston-area debate last week, they treated the tuition policy, on the books for 12 years, as radioactive.

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