For the next year, be very, very careful about your sources of information. Rick Perry is NOT against a fence, but wants to use a fence in a smart way along with the National Guard. This is in line with a conversation I had last week with someone high up in Homeland Security. A fence on its own isn’t the only answer. You wouldn’t believe the complicated systems that are in place by illegal drug and human traffickers. You can count on Rick Perry not being quoted correctly, ever.
And, now that I’m on a bit of a rant, why does the MSM and anti-Perry people expect us to not give Perry credit for a healthy Texas economy but want us to believe that after 2.5 years, Obama has nothing to do with America’s economic semi-collapse??
And the statements are right from Perry himself. Of course I considered that there is more than one way to skin a cat (e.g. other methods rather than the fence). But no, he isn't being very clear about this at all. Sorry ... but we need to try everything, including the fence, just get it done. And, from watching video, and reading his words, I am of the opinion he is soft on illegal aliens. Period.
Put another way, Perry will mobilize 100,000 national guard troops along the border his first day in office as President, he will build a border security fence that is state of the art and known to work, and Perry will take a position that not one person should enter the country illegally.
The border security construction Perry advocates will stretch the entire length of the U.S. southern border and will look something like the pictures below.
That's Perry's position, right? 
or this
Expanding on what you said, military doctrine holds that obstacles that are not combined with observation and direct fire serve only to annoy the enemy.
A fence is worthless by itself. The Mexicans will just drive a truck through it, climb over, or tunnel under. If you have sufficiently draconian penalties for trying to get in, you don't need much of a fence. Treating illegal border crossers as invaders will do a lot towards stopping it.
Rick Perry has repeatedly said he is against a fence for the majority of the TX-Mexico border. Too expensive, will take to long to build, will lead to 35’ ladders, etc..
Makes him a nonstarter for me, too. I, gulp, am not even sure I’d support him ahead of Romney at this point.
(Palin is my candidate.)