In fact, someone illegally resident in the US cannot apply for a legal entry visa. They would have to go back to their own country to do that.
What Perry means by "applying for full citizenship," is agitate for Amnesty.
No, the governor understands that amnesty won’t work, and will only bring “hordes” of new illegals across the border.
From the Governor’s book “Fed Up!,” the Kindle PC version:
From pages 118-119:
“”We have already been burned once by false promises of border security in exchange for tying security to other aspects of the immigration debate. President Regan, in 1986, signed the immigration reform and control act, which legalized close to 3 million undocumented immigrants. The law was supposed to be a comprehensive solution with provisions intended to clamp down on border security. These provisions were never enforced, and the subsequent explosion in illegal crossings has resulted in some 11 million illegal aliens living in the United States today an estimated 1.8 million illegal immigrants are currently residing in Texas, compared with 1.1 million in 2000. In ten years, that represents an increase of 54 percent or 70,000 persons each year coming to our state illegally. Today, the Pew Hispanic Center estimates than about one in ten people born in Mexico live in the United States. And all of this has occurred outside the system and to the disadvantage of others who have been waiting in line for many years. There are literally millions of people waiting to get into the country legally.””