Did you see the picture of Perry confronting Obama with a letter asking for help on the border?
States cannot do this and shouldn’t have to.
If we can send a man to the moon (to use a hackneyed phrase) we should be able to figure out a way to shut down the border.
Perry has a good plan but it has to be implemented nationally.
Yes, and it smells like a photo op?
"we should be able to figure out a way to shut down the border."
Nothing will work if you keep encouraging more to come and stay illegally by rewarding those who already came and stayed here illegally (with dream acts, pathways to citizenship, etc.). When the magnet is strong enough, they'll always find ways to come. People always copy what worked for others - as proven by the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, and Texas's standing as the state with the 2nd highest number of illegals next to California. (Yeah I know its profitable in the short term.)