“But Perry stood by his argument that building a fence along the entire Mexican border was unwise. The Texas governor said that the fence would likely be expensive, ineffective and violate the property rights of those who owned land on the border.”
Has Gov. Perry asked the landowners if they object to a fence along the land? If their property rights would somehow be more violated than by armed trespassers who cut fences, kill animals, “borrow” trucks and phones and make it too dangerous to go out at night?
How did you Texans elect this nitwit anyway? I’m voting anyone but Perry in the primary. If it was him vs. Obama, pulling the lever for him would hurt.
Perry isn’t against a border fence. He just has issues with the details and consequences of its implementation.
- We Texans ripped him over property rights on the Trans-Texas Corridor, so he’s particularly sensitive to land grabs.
- In areas where there is already fencing, the illegals tear it up to get over/through or they build tunnels. It doesn’t stop them or even significantly slow them.
- The Rio Grande is our southern border and a shared water source, so erecting a fence would significantly limit our access to the river and potentially cede land to Mexico by default.
- A fence on every inch of the border would be monumentally expensive to build and maintain. The repairs would be constant and become a source of bickering and legal battles between the states and federal government over financing and project control.
A border fence is not the total solution that Bachmann and others with no border experience portray it as. It’s but one small piece of the puzzle.
We Texans elected Perry because the alternative was an Acorn/Seiu backed democrat.
Building a fence would be like shutting the barn door after all the horses have left.
This is a federal border issue but the obama regime is more than willing to let the situation get out of control.
Check out post 9 and 11. A fence won’t even slow them down. We need tanks and troops on the border.
Won’t happen with this gang in dc.
Doesn’t affect them.
Let them eat tortillas.