Perry was and is not against border fencing. His position, which is correct IMO, is that it is impractical to try to fence the entire border between Texas and Mexico. The fence we have now does not stop the flow or even significantly slow down illegals crossing the border. Additionally, there are substantial issues with closing off Texas ranchers’ access to their water supply (the Rio) and effectively ceding the physical territory between the fence and the middle of the river to Mexico.
Sorry Buck, but that IS being against it.
We have all been through the argument over the fence and as always, fences are proven to work. Israel attests to that. It’s a matter of patrolling them. just as was the original plan when GWB approved it, congress funded it and the dems later cut it.
And I have spoken with a number of your fellow Texans that say Perry is far from the ideal conservative and like myself, question whether he’s a conservative at all. I admit he’s great on some issues like land and energy. but he is abysmal on personal rights (the HPV fiasco) and his delusion about ‘strategic fencing’.
And just to reiterate the fence thing and practicality, if the Chinese could do it three times longer over terrain that makes a mountain goat wet itself 3000 years ago... by hand no less...with ROCKS...and hold of the freaking Mongol Horde, I somehow think we could do it over mostly flat land with the help of Catepillar and John Deere, keeping the drug lords and illegal aliens at bay.
If we can land men on the moon and send 2 satellites to the edge of our solar system, we can overcome the technical challenges in hammering razor wire and chain link into dirt and rock, while allowing for irrigation and animal migration.
If we can make airplanes invisible to radar and live for months in orbit, we can figure out a way to stop liberals from stopping us from defending our country. Because as we already see the bodies pile up on the border, the day is quickly coming when people are going to demand that fence with no care to ‘practicality’ or who gets upset by it’s existence.
It’s simply a matter of will.