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You seem to have difficulty distinguishing between what the states can do and what the federal government can do and how it leads to these resulting problems.

If the states could stop this, it would have been stopped. It’s bankrupting us. The Feds are using us to support all their programs and inaction and taking the money we send them to do what their supposed to be doing and spend it on something else (sort of how they do with social security taxes) instead of protecting and defending the border.

The facts are that the federal government has allowed this to happen, has enacted dictates and programs that encourage it to happen and the states sit with their hands tied, struggling to keep it from overwhelming them.

Perhaps you could take the time and actually read what I wrote in my essay.

I read what you wrote in your commentary, and what you said was ridiculous. As long as we give people an incentive to come to this country illegally, they will come. The federal government could do a better job of keeping them out of our country, but that's no excuse for Rick Perry adding to the incentives for people to break the law. As long as Rick Perry is adding to the incentives for people to break the law, he's part of the problem and not part of the solution.

The real issue is that Rick Perry just isn't much of a conservative. I guess for people who measure conservatism by being bombastic and inarticulate, he's a conservative, but for those of us who look for someone who will advance policies and causes that will move the country in the right direction, Rick Perry doesn't have the right stuff. You can be as snippy and sarcastic as you want, but you aren't making him into a conservative. If he has a strong enough Congress behind him, he may not be a bad president, but Obama will have to fall even farther before Rick Perry can win the general election.