[DRey]

He observed in Israel that they used predator drones on their border. He immediately came back requesting assistance with this from the feds. You see, Texas has 64% of the Mexican border, but is only given 20% of the federal funding. Obama hates Texas. They, of course, refused the drones.

You will hear all kinds of nonsense about Perry being "soft" on the border, or even that he is for amnesty. Aside from jobs, border security is his #1 concern. He is on record repeatedly saying that until the federal government fulfills its CONSTITUTIONAL obligation to secure our borders, rational discussion on legal and illegal immigrants cannot take place. He is also on record against "a fence." That's misleading. We have LOTS of fences in Texas, where fences are needed. But Texas is defined by the Rio Grande, a no-man's land where no fool would dare to cross. Also, if fences separated us from the river, all the farmers and ranchers would be cut off from the river -- enter the drones and manpower Perry has requested.

Anyway, I'm glad to give the info on Israel. You can Google Perry and Israel and see. He's very serious about our security.

[casinva]

You can Google Perry and Israel and see. He's very serious about our security.

Just got your last post.

Guess it was you. I just mistook your first response I guess. Guess it's getting late, and I need to get to bed! LOL

Knowing Rick Perry is "in the news" right now, I have been studying his border security measures and somewhat understand his stands and actions on border security. I am quite impressed he has listened to the recommendations of the Border Sheriff's in the use of "boots on the ground" with strategic urban fencing. I have also heard his stand on using visual technology and aircraft (drones).

I did NOT know he got some of those ideas from personally modeling Israel. I thought most of his decisions had come from his following the recommendations of law enforcement officers here.

It was because I had been studying his stands and practices on border security, and thinking a lot of it came from local law enforcement recommendations that may me sit up and shot "Wow... Interesting" when I saw your post that some was actually out of modeling Israel. That just was so surprising to me. It was a pleasant surprise. I think it was a good idea to see what Israel, one of the most dangerous places in the world, did.

Well, from putting both of your posts together, I am guessing my earlier post to you must have sounded really weird to you somehow. I'm not sure what I did, but it must have come off oddly for some reason.

I figured I had better take the time to let you know, since I now know it WAS you who posted that, why I had such a reaction. Like I mentioned, I have been trying to really study this issue, especially since it is one many either don't understand, don't like what some of the various candidates are doing, or don't have enough info or understanding on what each of the candidates really are doing.

I thought I had found quite a bit of information already!

Then I saw your post that combined the Bush dislike of Perry (which I had heard about but never knew WHY) and I also heard the Israel border safety model for Texas (which I had not discovered as yet either). Those two little things (are they little? lol) just totally surprised me out of the blue!

So maybe I'm not so sleepy after all. I did get it right that it was you.

However, if I came off somehow oddly, as I feel I must have from you telling me no one is listening to me, then please forgive me. I really was just interested in what you had just said.