Perry is a longtime, unwavering supporter of the NAFTA Superhighway and related infrastructure projects. These pave the way for theNorth American Union (NAU) proposal that would merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico. .
Gov. Perry gave a 2001 speech in Mexico, no less, saying he supported completely open borders, in which Perry called for... the “free flow of individuals between these two countries who want to work and want to be an asset to our country and to Mexico.” .......Apparently, there can never be too much immigration from Mexico for Gov. Perry.
Gov. Perry is against interior enforcement of our immigration laws. During the debate over Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration SB 1070, he opposed enacting something similar in his state, saying, “It would not be the right direction for Texas.”
The “Washington Watcher” at Vdare.com notes Gov. Perry has called for a “guest worker program that takes undocumented workers off the black market and legitimizes their economic contributions without providing them with citizenship status.” In other words, at a time when a record number of Americans are out of work, Gov. Perry’s job-creation plan is to make it easier for foreigners to take more of our jobs.
Gov. Perry “supports granting citizenship to children of illegal aliens, and opposes legislation to change the current policy which grants citizenship to any child of an illegal alien.” According to the Washington Post, he has said any change of our current birthright citizenship policies would be “unconstitutional.”
Gov. Rick Perry, who stated: “E-Verify would not make a hill of beans difference when it comes to what’s happening in America today.”
According to the AP, he talks of sending small teams of Texas Rangers to the border to halt drug trafficking, but the AP also notes that there are only 144 Texas Rangers in the whole state. And as Gov. Perry himself notes, there are 1,200 miles of border between Texas and Mexico that he’s happy to keep fenceless and unsecured.
Gov. Perry got $2 million in federal grants that were supposed to go to border sheriffs so they could place 200 cameras along the border. Somehow, few were ever built, and the ones that were built didn’t work.
According to the AP, the Texas Association of Business (TAB), which is one of Gov. Perry’s strong backers, adamantly opposes immigration control. “The economy would suffer without undocumented workers,” says TAB president Bill Hammad. “We need them.”
BTW,You do know that our border is a river, don’t you? If they can get across the Rio Grande, climbing a fence is no big deal. You might as well put a fence along the coastline in the Gulf of Mexico, too.
Governor Perry is not for a “fenceless” border, but for a fence in some places and not in others, where it does no good because it’s easily breached – even by girls: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHjKBjM1ngw&NR=1
In the Governor’s book, Fed Up!, he answers most of your questions, including the one about the Arizona bill – In Texas, we wouldn’t write the bill so that it puts our local law enforcement agencies and officers in danger of a new class of law suits:
I do have some concerns with the law, and I don’t believe it is necessarily the right approach for Texas, in part because of the new cause of action it provides against law enforcement. Having battled trial lawyers for decades, I am concerned about opening up the courthouse doors to additional lawsuits. But I strongly support the right of the citizens of Arizona, Texas, or any other state to pass laws to protect themselves. In fact, we joined in federal court with eight other states to help defend Arizona against the Obama administration’s lawsuit.
Perry, Rick (2010-11-15). Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington (p. 161). Little, Brown and Company. Kindle Edition.
It’s a shame you’re too lazy to give links or full statements. Most of your half-truths come from this http://governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/10688/ 2001 speech – a speech made before September 2001, in a very different political climate. Nevertheless, the full, exact quotes mean the exact opposite from what you claim they do.
I've read the charge that NAFTA could "pave the way" to NAU, but it's not NAU and it hasn't done any such thing in the many years since we've signed that Treaty with Mexico and with Canada. It's an international treaty setting limits and requirements for trade - it allows trade with Canada as well as Mexico. It's no different than those International Airports or the Houston Port.
This speech calls on the US to honor the treaty that we signed, including the provision that “Mexican trucks that meet our safety standards should be given the same access to U.S. roads as our Canadian neighbors to the north.”
The Governor never said he supported completely open borders and guest workers, much less "free flow" is not the same as immigration. I visited the British Virgin Islands this year, but I didn't immigrate.
In every part of the speech, he lays responsibility on Mexico to “. . . work together to solve the challenges we both face”
Take a look at the paragraph that supposedly supports open borders, and the conditions the Governor lays down:
“President Fox’s vision for an open border is a vision I embrace, as long as we demonstrate the will to address the obstacles to it. An open border means poverty has given way to opportunity, and Mexico’s citizens do not feel compelled to cross the border to find that opportunity. It means we have addressed pollution concerns, made substantial progress in stopping the spread of disease, and rid our crossings of illicit drug smuggling activity. Clearly we have a long way to go in addressing those issues. At the same time we must continue to deepen our economic ties, expanding opportunities for Mexican and U.S. companies to do business on both sides of the border. The outlook is promising, even if the road to prosperity is a long one.”
As to the E-verify charge, here’s the full statement the Governor made:
“"E-Verify would not make a hill of beans' difference when it comes to what's happening in America today. You secure the border first, then you can talk about how to identify individuals in an immigration situation."”
The entire statement shows that the point the Governor made was that the first goal, if you want to protect the Nation from an invasion of illegal workers, should be to secure the border.
Look at the long discussion about e-verify, here .http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/feb/01/kay-bailey-hutchison/hutchison-says-texas-state-doesnt-use-e-verify-wee/ The comment was about whether Texas *State employees* were vetted by E-verify. It turns out that we use another verification system.