[Cincinatus' Wife]

It’s a physical FENCE in urban areas and a patrolled border in areas where there are 2000 miles of wide open spaces.

But the border MUST BE SEALED before anything else is discussed.

PERIOD.

[kabar]

The construction of the fence should be a security decision made by people who know what they are talking about and are responsible for actual border security. When you strengthen one area, then the bad guys look for the weakest link. Perry ridiculed the building of a fence, now he is backtracking. Boots on the ground, fences, drones, sensors, cameras, lighting etc. are all part of border security.

The 2006 Secure Fence Act was overwhelming approved including with votes from Obama and Hillary Clinton. About a year later, a little known amendment attached to a bill sponsored by Kay Baily Hutcheson, essentially gutted the bill allowing the physical barriers contained in the bill to be replaced by the "virtual fence." Opposition to the fence came from small town mayors along the Texas-Mexico border who did not want a fence built in their towns, which makes Perry's comment that the fences should be built in urban areas curious to say the least.

Just a few years ago the Border Patrol was apprehending over 1 million people a year trying to cross the border. Today it is around 500,000. And more get thru than are apprehended. We are being invaded.