But... Rick Perry says a fence won’t work, and in-state tuition for illegal aliens will!
Take a REAL look at post #3.........
Until recently, the Obama administration and their spokesersons — the US media denied this assertion and ridiculed Perry who brought it up and is fighting it.
Perry says Obama has ‘poorest intel’ about border safety
Perry - who has cast himself as a border hawk - regularly decries what he calls spillover violence into the U.S., citing examples that, it turns out, are rare.
In a speech this past spring to pitch comprehensive immigration reform, President Barack Obama declared Southwest border cities relatively peaceful and peril-free. Gov. Rick Perry, in his capacity as Texas’ tough-talking chief executive and GOP frontrunner for the 2012 presidential nomination, ridiculed the assertion, saying in a nationally televised debate earlier this month that Obama either has “some of the poorest intel” or was “an abject liar.”
While Obama touts the doubling of Border Patrol agents to more than 20,000, a drop-off in immigration detentions and low crime rates along the border as evidence that the area is secure, Perry disagrees, claiming that he has been forced to spend state money to secure a violence-ridden region.
More resources are being devoted to the Southwest border. Last year, you were more likely to be slain in Austin, considered among the safest large cities in the country, than in El Paso, across the river from one of the most dangerous cities in the hemisphere.
Gov. Perry wants U.S. troops guarding border
Feb 25, 2009
http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_11779431
“Gov. Rick Perry said he wants 1,000 troops to help guard the Texas-Mexico border, and for the U.S. to fund strong security measures to fight the Mexican drug cartels that have spread violence and fear in Mexico, including Juárez.
“We’re (also) asking the (Texas) Legislature for $135 million for border security - to go after transnational gangs, for technology and aviation assets,” and the federal government for 1,000 troops, said Perry at a news conference Tuesday at the Chamizal National Memorial.
“I don’t care if they are military, National Guard or customs agents. We’re very concerned that the federal government is not funding border security adequately. We must be ready for any contingency.”