no, he wont. he will be anti-amnesty. and he will at least fund and secure the borders.
Interesting, it was just a year ago that he was saying that Arizona-style legislation wouldn't work here, and it was less than two weeks ago that Perry's biggest donors killed off the sanctuary city legislation in Texas. Oh and lest we forget, it
was less than four years ago when Perry pushed for amnesty:
Leading a large delegation of Texas executives trying to drum up business in Mexico, Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday criticized the U.S. Congress for failing to pass an immigration bill that would legalize millions of workers.
"I don't think this is that difficult an issue if Congress would have the maturity to sit down and really discuss it and cut out all the mean rhetoric," Perry said during a break in the third day of meetings with Mexican officials and business executives.
"We need those individuals to continue to grow our economy," he said of Texas' undocumented workers, most of whom hail from Mexico. "The vast, vast majority of those individuals want to come and work and take care of their families."
I'm not sure who told Rick Perry that we need illegal immigrants who circumvent our national security to grow our economy. Oh could it be Perry's biggest donor, a home builder, or one of his other major donors, a grocer. Construction and farming...nah those industries don't use a lot of illegal labor do they?
Perry's biggest donor being a home builder has guided a lot of Perry's rhetoric over the last 10 years - he talks tough on border security, but he supports amnesty, or "guest workers" as he, McCain, and Bush call them, and he pushed for Congress to legalize those illegal immigrants so that they could continue working for his donors. He's talked about a dream of open borders, he's praised LULAC, he's talked about healthcare for Mexicans.
You can't claim to be tough on border security and then turn around and criticize Congress for not legalizing millions of illegal immigrants. Perry supporters think you can, but legalizing the crimes of illegal immigrants is rewarding those who would circumvent our national security and who do not respect our sovereignty. In the wake of 9/11, it's especially dangerous to want to reward those who would illegally enter this country.