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Perry calls idea of U.S.-Mexico border wall ‘ridiculous’
MSNBC ^ | August 17, 2011 | Sarah Blackwill and Domenico Montanaro

Posted on 08/17/2011 10:42:50 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Rick Perry called the idea of a wall across the entire U.S.-Mexico border “ridiculous” today in a stop in New Hampshire.

“You got strategic fencing in some of the metropolitan areas – it’s very helpful,” the Texas governor said. “But the idea that you’re going to build a wall from Brownsville to El Paso is just -- it’s ridiculous on its face.”

That was in the context of Perry saying how he'd asked Washington for 1,000 National Guard troops and how current efforts at border security are ineffective.

Perry swatted at the Obama administration’s assertion that the “border is safer than it’s ever been.”

“Six week ago, the president went to El Paso and sai the border is safer than it’s ever been,” Perry began. “I have no idea, maybe he was talking about the Canadian border. I will assure you one thing, if I’m president of the United States, the border will be secure.”

(Excerpt) Read more at firstread.msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnestyperryyes; border; borderfence; bordersecurity; gorescampaignmanager; illegals; immigrantlist; mexico; obl; openborders; perry; rickperry; rionfreeamerica
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To: Roninf5-1

You want to build a 2000 mile wall like that?


41 posted on 08/17/2011 11:00:44 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Grunthor; Cincinatus' Wife

“I wonder how many folks aren’t going to bother reading the whole article and going just on the headline, condemn Perry.”

From MSNBC all you get is a headline. One liner left wing propaganda.


42 posted on 08/17/2011 11:01:29 AM PDT by poobear (FACTS - the turd in the punch bowl of liberal thought!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
In spite of the fact that walls(fences) work. The small portion of the fence that was built under W has pushed the invaders to other areas to cross. I could build a fence the entire length of the Texas/Mexico border in eight months for way less than the $1 million a mile the feds got screwed on. 10 miles a day within three months of starting and then 50 a day six months in.
43 posted on 08/17/2011 11:02:22 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (White Feather owns the field.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
El Gringo De Meijico Numero Dos Tres on the way.
44 posted on 08/17/2011 11:02:29 AM PDT by ZULU (McConnell and Boehner are the Judas and Ephialtes of the 21st Century)
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To: Artemis Webb

well, thats it, I’m taking the fence down around my house since it can just be scaled with a ladder anyways..... /s

how about motion sensor cameras hidden along (in) the wall....Gah, people act like they have no idea to keep foreigners from invading.


45 posted on 08/17/2011 11:02:40 AM PDT by DrewsMum ("I abandoned free market principles to save the free market." -GWBush)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Wouldn’t one case of .308 do the job?


46 posted on 08/17/2011 11:03:50 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: Artemis Webb

No need to deport 12 million illegals. They got here on their own and they will leave on their own when what they came here for, paying jobs, is no longer made available to them.

Would a candidate who promises to enforce current law such that employing illegal aliens becomes an economic and legal liability be too much to ask?


47 posted on 08/17/2011 11:04:25 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

well at least we’ll be making them work for it, instead of just putting out a welcome rug.


48 posted on 08/17/2011 11:04:59 AM PDT by DrewsMum ("I abandoned free market principles to save the free market." -GWBush)
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To: maddog55

>> Perry’s right.. we should however set up about a two mile wide DMZ, razor wire ans shoot anything coming across.

As a bonus, it would be a GREAT place to put a trench full of radioactive waste. ;-)


49 posted on 08/17/2011 11:05:06 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: zippythepinhead
We can also enforce the damn laws.

That's a good place to start. Until we have that in hand, talking about building walls is mindless blather.

50 posted on 08/17/2011 11:05:31 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Perdogg
I am NOT in favor of open borders, but I am against either a wall or a fence for technical reasons and because of the expense.

YouTube Video: Watch how fast illegal aliens can climb over, cut through and go under a worthless Border Fence that would cost Billions to build


51 posted on 08/17/2011 11:05:50 AM PDT by Polybius (Defeating Obama is Priority Number One)
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To: Artemis Webb
Yes, I've seen more than one of those. I've also seen a number of these:

High Voltage

52 posted on 08/17/2011 11:06:03 AM PDT by Josh Painter ("The only thing these 'investments' will get us is a bullet train to bankruptcy." - Palin)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Ok, don’t build the wall but then enforce our laws and prosecute companies that hire illegals.

Lou Dobbs said it best “These are not jobs Americans wont do, they are jobs American companies wont pay a living wage for”


53 posted on 08/17/2011 11:06:28 AM PDT by thepatriot1 (...brought to you courtesy of the Red, White and Blue)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I have long thought that the more appropriate route to solving this problem is WHY are they coming here illegally? Fix that and you don't need a fence.

I'd cut off the government spigot first. As far as going after employers, that could be the next step but at least employers getting an economic benefit from this is far preferable to taxpayers getting stuck with supporting illegals.

IF we need to improve methods for these people to come LEGALLY, then that needs to be improved.

NO rewards for law breakers.

54 posted on 08/17/2011 11:08:41 AM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Remember the source of this crap! If true, Perry is finished before he gets started!


55 posted on 08/17/2011 11:08:50 AM PDT by paratrooper82 (We are kicking Ass in Afghanistan, soon we will be home to kick some more Asses in Congress!)
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To: Perdogg
I am NOT in favor of open borders, but I am against either a wall or a fence for technical reasons and because of the expense.

Dirt cheap compared to the costs illegals cause by utilizing government services at all levels and especially education and medical care.

56 posted on 08/17/2011 11:10:22 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Artemis Webb

so since you cant deport 12 million at once, you don’t deport ANY??? So then what was the big beef about McCain and immigration??..... several freepers owe him an apology for coming down on him so hard about immigration


57 posted on 08/17/2011 11:10:26 AM PDT by DrewsMum ("I abandoned free market principles to save the free market." -GWBush)
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To: Polybius

That right there is funny. How about a shovel salesman right next door? A fence with no one patrolling it would have more gopher holes under it than my backyard (and I have alot.)


58 posted on 08/17/2011 11:11:02 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Jedidah

Perry doesn’t want to build a wall even in easily passable areas....you’re jumping to defend him based on your views and quite frankly, he doesn’t share those views.


59 posted on 08/17/2011 11:12:44 AM PDT by DrewsMum ("I abandoned free market principles to save the free market." -GWBush)
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To: allmendream

Gov. Perry has made the point that a fence isn’t the answer, that conservative ascendancy is. The Feds have allowed this massive illegal influx of Mexicans and others (periodically made legal). They flock here for work and for all the social programs offered by the federal government —which has tied states’ hands and tapped their scarce revenue to foot education and health care costs (can not ask questions of legal status). So frankly, Gov. Perry is right. We have to make those already here conservatives, secure the border (financed and fully secured by the federal government) and set up a worker program that works.

If we had built a wall along California’s border with other U.S. states, wouldn’t the rest of the country be in much better shape today — not infected by all their liberal nonsense? Just a thought I’ll throw out there.


60 posted on 08/17/2011 11:13:08 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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