You may want to remember that Perry is the guy who kills illegals who murders Americans in Texas while the rest of the Government cries and begs him not to.
Does the word principle mean anything to you?
It’s not that he isn’t rigorous on other aspects of the illegal infestation. It’s the fact that he said the rest of us don’t have a heart in the face of Texas’ capitulation that they can’t do anything about illegals already here. In effect Texas is paying ‘protection’ money to keep the illegals toned down. It’s not his fault that the Fed won’t round them up, but he doesn’t have to push his values on the rest of us in a national debate saying “we don’t have a heart.”