The frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination
thinks the Department of Homeland Security should reimburse Texas for
$350 million, give or take.
With the help of state Comptroller Susan Combs, Perry developed a
formula to determine how much his state has had to spend on housing and
feeding illegal immigrants that should have been taken care of by
federal authorities.
Perry has come under criticism in recent days from some conservatives
who suggest he is soft on the issue of immigrant law enforcement. But
his letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, herself a
former border state governor, obtained by the Associated Press, was dated Aug. 10, several days before Perry announced his candidacy in South Carolina. (Full Story)
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