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Now. >> can you put in perspective how this issue and this story, which has really kind of escalated in its salience over the last two or three weeks, how it is resonating in your congressional district in the state of texas? >> well, you know, of course texans are concerned about the situation, but texas also has a long history with immigration. we are the state in the nation that has the longest border with mexico of any state. about 1,200 miles. and so, you know, this situation, while it's unique in american history, texas has a long history of immigration. and also, if you look at what's g...

State to be giving tuition to illegal aliens, illegal immigrants in this country, that's their call. and i respect that. and i was -- i was probably a bit overpassionate by using that word, and it was inappropriate. >> and yet it strikes me, congressman, that the governor's first position there, the old position, is probably more in line with the majority of texans than folks outside texas might anticipate. >> no, that's right. you know, texas was one of the first states to pass its state version of a dream act, and, you know, i remember watching governor perry deliver that line and being prou...

For at in a very crowded republican primary field that he was stung by the issue of immigration in 2012, vis-a-vis the texas dream act, and so he's going to talk tough on this issue and and i don't think he really believes that but knows it's going to rile up his base. >> it was a key moment in the last presidential primary. this is rick perry defending texas' decision to extend in-state tuition to the undocumented children in state if they qualified for college. take a listen. >> if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been ...

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