by Brian Shearer
I was shocked to hear Rick Perry drop this reasonable nugget during the Republican debate on September 22: “If you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they’ve been brought there by no fault of their own, I don’t think you have a heart.” Why Perry decided to buck his party’s hard-line views on immigration is beyond me. And maybe this was a bit of an overstatement but it was refreshing to see a Republican acknowledge that immigrants are people that deserve some consideration.