[dangus]

>> However he DID say he will secure the border. <<

Except he was lying. Look how he secured the border in Texas, and the way he kept repeating himself instead of responding to Santorum.

[Sudetenland]

Because Santorum was wrong. The whole point is that there are not the boots on the ground as he was asserting when he was demanding an answer and if he had been listening to what Perry said rather than planning his attack against Perry, he would have known that.

Santorum kept saying that Perry's plan had been implemented, which it has not because the federal government has repeatedly refused to put the number of men on the border that are required.

What Perry has done--what Texas has done--is to put 400 Texas Rangers on the border and supplemented that with NG helicopters. What is needed is 4000 men on the border, but those must come from the federal government as securing the border is a federal constitutional obligation.

Perry's problem is he is unable to articulate why Santorum was wrong.

[Grey Eagle]

How do you know Rick Perry is lying about securing the border? TX has 1800 miles of border with Mexico. He has Texas Rangers on the ground. He has asked Obama for National Guard, drones and other aviation assets and all has been refused. TX has spent 400 million trying to secure the border. This is a federal responsibility. Remember than Obama has sued Arizona over their law. Obama won’t cooperate at all with Governor Perry. TX can not afford to spend billions and billions of dollars on a fence.