Governor Rick Perry’s (R-TX) image among Hispanics have changed in the last ten years. In 2001, he pushed for education for undocumented immigrants and their children, but in 2011, he’s looking to eliminate what have come to be called “sanctuary cities,” in which police are not required to check the immigration status of those detained for means of sending them along to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
As census numbers have shown, Hispanic voters are large enough in to change the tides of an election, but Perry may have burned too many bridges.
