Perry Stance on Immigration and Tuition Key Focus of GOP Debate

Gov. Rick Perry's rivals for the Republican presidential nomination heartily attacked his stance letting undocumented immigrants pay in-state tuition at Texas public universities at the sixth GOP debate Thursday night. The issue, on which Michelle Bachman took the lead during the last such debate, became a key focus of Thursday night's event, with numerous candidates criticizing Perry for taking too liberal a stance. "I've got be honest with you, I don't see how it is that a state like Texas -- to go to the University of Texas, if you're an illegal alien, you get an in-state tuition discount," said Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor. "You know how much that is? That's $22,000 a year. Four years of college, almost $100,000 discount if you are an illegal alien go to the University of Texas. If you are a United States citizen from any one of the other 49 states, you have to pay $100,000 more. That doesn't make sense to me.