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Perry tells NH no to border fence
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| 9/3/11
| Steve Peoples - ap
Posted on 09/03/2011 1:35:22 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry says he opposes a fence along the U.S. border with Mexico.
Speaking to hundreds of New Hampshire voters at a private reception Saturday afternoon, the Texas governor says a fence would be ineffective and take too long to build.
The comments, which produced one angry shout, expose a rift with some conservative voters over Perry's immigration record. Tea party activists in Texas have been particularly upset by his steady opposition to the fence. He also signed a law giving illegal immigrants in-state tuition for Texas universities.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Mexico; Politics/Elections
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To: Josh Painter
Imagine machine gun turrets on the fence posts.Hmmm...very effective at keeping people out.
...and keeping people IN.
To: Polybius
Round up 500 Michan crop pickers
Would have been more effective to stop them when they passed through Texas.
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posted on
09/03/2011 4:44:24 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a Permenant Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
To: bgill
Have not these counties been democrat since the 40’s, the 1840’s?
343
posted on
09/03/2011 4:44:36 PM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 ....Rats carry plague)
To: bgill
You build what works...don’t build what doesn’t work.
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posted on
09/03/2011 4:44:52 PM PDT
by
lonestar
(It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
To: Winstons Julia
FYI, the Gardasil scam is not dead and gone. He’s playing smoke and mirrors. Gardasil is being shipped to Texas public schools to be dispensed by the school nurses. Granted, it’s not mandantory like Perry wanted it to be but when it’s offered for FREE!!!! there’s some coersion going on. The Texas taxpayers who are footing this freebie are who it’s hurting.
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posted on
09/03/2011 4:45:00 PM PDT
by
bgill
(just getting tagline ready for 6 months after you vote in Perry - Tried to warn you he's a RINO.)
To: trisham
Do you have a legitimate link to that?
346
posted on
09/03/2011 4:45:47 PM PDT
by
Winstons Julia
(when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives vent, it's called hate speech.)
To: Drew68
A lot more effective than a billion dollar chain-link fence, don't you think?Please provide a link that this would be a chain-link fence.
347
posted on
09/03/2011 4:46:31 PM PDT
by
bgill
(just getting tagline ready for 6 months after you vote in Perry - Tried to warn you he's a RINO.)
To: bgill
I object to forcing anyone to do things... although ...THAT’s even a difficult position when it comes to legit vaccines.
It’s my understanding that Gardasil has proven benefits.
348
posted on
09/03/2011 4:47:53 PM PDT
by
Winstons Julia
(when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives vent, it's called hate speech.)
To: Polybius
We produce tons of produce, including the best blueberries in the country, incredible cherries, not to bad celery, and the best Honeycrisp Apples in the land. Of course, that also means ‘seasonal’ migrants come here in droves in March and leave in November.
349
posted on
09/03/2011 4:50:29 PM PDT
by
rintense
(Polls are for strippers and cross country skiing. ~ Sarah Palin, 9.3.11)
To: trisham; Winstons Julia; BykrBayb; EternalVigilance
350
posted on
09/03/2011 4:53:09 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: LucyT
IMO Perry is little better than Romney. Slick. Disingenuous. And not (very) conservative, or at seems to play at being one when he needs to. Did you see that letter he wrote to Hitlery about Hitlery Care??
Gack.
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posted on
09/03/2011 4:53:56 PM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
To: Soothesayer9
Hmmm...very effective at keeping people out. ...and keeping people IN. Whenever I want to run down to Mexico for a little R&R, I always find the most remote rock and cactus to hide behind as I sneak across rather than doing it legally at the bridge.
352
posted on
09/03/2011 4:55:24 PM PDT
by
bgill
(just getting tagline ready for 6 months after you vote in Perry - Tried to warn you he's a RINO.)
To: Drew68
"He's right, of course and anyone who gives this subject more than just a knee-jerk thought will understand why. A fence is a stupid idea. It would cost billions of dollars to build something that could be defeated by ladders, snips and, at most, a battery-powered sawzall.
I've seen the fences along Arizona and California. They're jokes. In some places they're only chain-link. Think a fence is going to stop illegals? Sure, maybe if you build it two hundred feet high, fifty feet wide and have it patrolled by armed guards, alligators, grizzly bears and laser beams. Really think it's going to look like that? Building a fence is nothing more than a "feel-good" response to a very complex issue. Perry understands this and I'll give him props for speaking honestly as opposed to spouting "I'll build the biggest darned fence ever!!!" nonsense just to please voters."
All sounds very reasonable until you check into Perry's history on the issue and start going through the list of his big donors and the other causes they support. Do that, and it's almost impossible not to come to the conclusion that Rick Perry is a paid shill for North American integration - period. Some people can't handle the truth, but it is what it is.
353
posted on
09/03/2011 4:55:31 PM PDT
by
CowboyJay
("Rick Perry has more red flags than a May Day parade." - fieldmarshalj)
To: muawiyah
Yes, the wall was built to keep people IN...not to keep people OUT!
The reason they had guards on it was to keep the other guards from trying to escape.
Tell that to the guards who yelled at me...when I didn't realize I had wandered into "no man's land."
As you know, the East Berliners tunneled under the fence...and had to hide the dirt.
You cannot compare the terrain on the TX boder with a fence down the middle of a city. Trust me...because I've seen both!
354
posted on
09/03/2011 4:57:05 PM PDT
by
lonestar
(It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
To: Soothesayer9
Not to sound naive but where would the turtles sit?
To: JayGalt
Have you given any thought to the farms that would go out of business and the jobs that would be lost all along the distribution chain?![](http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2009/9/4/128965494832102992.jpg)
Wah f-ing wah. It is a cutthroat world. The H1-b program and Affirmative Action are programs designed specifically to wipe me out and put me in poverty. I HAVE NO SYMPATHY.
356
posted on
09/03/2011 5:02:21 PM PDT
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Winstons Julia
I see you side-stepped the issue that Perry is forcing taxpayers to pay for it.
Surely, I don’t need to remind you why he pushed for it in the first place. It had more to do with the benefits he was and is currently getting than the benefits little 6th grade girls would have gotten.
357
posted on
09/03/2011 5:04:01 PM PDT
by
bgill
(just getting tagline ready for 6 months after you vote in Perry - Tried to warn you he's a RINO.)
To: rintense
migrants Awww, what a warm and fuzzy word.
358
posted on
09/03/2011 5:05:24 PM PDT
by
bgill
(just getting tagline ready for 6 months after you vote in Perry - Tried to warn you he's a RINO.)
To: lonestar
There was no "no man's land" on any of the border areas between Western Europe and the East Bloc.
Rather, the Russian designers set the whole system several feet back into their zone of control ~ in some places a whole lot of feet, but still not all that big an area. Remember, the objective was to STOP MOVEMENT, not control small blocks of farmland or forest. And in some places it seemed to me they'd "curved the line" to improve their field of fire on their own side.
Most likely anyone crossing the actual border and stepping in the East Bloc would find an understanding VOPO willing to shout at him to "get back scheistkopf" ~ or a Russian willing to tell him the same thing.
They all had a vested interest in NOT having to go out there to pick up the pieces from some fool who'd blown himself up. It takes more than a day and is not done without risk. There were little poppers everywhere, plus the bigger antipersonnel mines, plus the vehicle mines ~ and nobody on either side of the border wanted to be bothered with any of them going off. Maybe the big dogs in Moscow or Washington did, but not the guys down on the border.
To: bgill
He’s forcing taxpayers to pay for it?
I thought he admitted that it was a mistake? What am I missing?
Apparently California is thinking about doing it.
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posted on
09/03/2011 5:09:40 PM PDT
by
Winstons Julia
(when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives vent, it's called hate speech.)
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