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You ask: Does Perry advocate fencing in those locations where it would be of obvious tactical benefit?

You answer: No.

But that’s not what Perry suggests nor what he said today.

Here’s his direct quote:

“There are places along the border that strategic fencing worked, particularly in the metropolitan areas,” Perry said. “The idea that we’re going to build a wall from El Paso to Brownsville doesn’t make sense ‘cause the fact of the matter is you know, number one, you’d never get it built, and it’d cost billions of dollars ... by the time you go from Tijuana to Brownsville.” Perry said that he does support putting “boots on the ground” and using “aviation assets” (i.e. aerial drones) to secure the border.

Duh.

Look, I don’t even like Perry, but he’s right on this. The suggestion that we should fence the entire Texas/Mexico border is just absurd.

I hate it when FR dumbs down like this.

“There are places along the border that strategic fencing worked, particularly in the metropolitan areas,” Perry said.

There are long flat stretches of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona in which a fence would indeed be a deterrent not incorporated by his statement.

As I said, QED and yes, I'd read it. And for you to suggest that I'm not aware of the variation of terrain across a continent is beyond condescending.

Look, I don’t even like Perry, but he’s right on this.

No, he's spinning and obfuscating.

The suggestion that we should fence the entire Texas/Mexico border is just absurd.

I never said that. My guess is between 60-70% of it would benefit. Worse, this use of "cost" as an excuse for not building a fence ignores that the bulk of it is in lawsuits Congress could preclude by statute. No, Perry is a dishonest spin artist here and I'm going to call him on it.

Are we only going to fence off Mexico and Texas? How about New Mexico Arizona and California fenced off from Mexico too? I have seen the New Mexico fence, it is 4 strands of rusty barbed wire on a few leaning posts. How many miles of fence would that be?