Rick Perry: September 15, 2011 - " The bigger issue is that you’re never going to have a conversation that is anything more than an intellectual exercise about immigration until you secure the border. That is what we must focus on as a country. I do not agree that building a 1,800-mile barrier is thoughtful. It’s an easy answer. I think it’s a cop out for anyone who’s actually been on the border. It’s like building a wall from Bangor, Maine to Miami, Florida. What does work is strategic fencing in your metropolitan areas, having the boots on the ground. We are woefully understaffed on that border.
We have the technology. Predator drones are being flown in United States air space as we speak. Why not fly those from Brownsville, Texas, to El Paso and to Tijuana and back and use that real-time information for local law enforcement, our state law enforcement and our federal counterparts? That’s how you thoughtfully secure that border, and then you can have a discussion about what type of immigration reform we want to consider as a country. But not until then. Too many times, we’ve been told, if we’ll just pass this immigration reform then we’ll secure the border. And it hasn’t happened...."
HERZLIYA, Israel (Reuters) - Though sidelined by pan-Arab democracy drives, al Qaeda may have found a firmer foothold in the lawless Egyptian Sinai where it poses a threat to Israel, experts say.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's counter-terrorism czar told an Israeli-hosted security conference this week Egypt's political entropy had helped reinforce and arm Sinai radicals whose presence is tacitly acknowledged by Egyptian intelligence.
"Many jihadists were released from jail ... bring(ing) into the area many years of experience, knowledge, courage and people who actually do not have anything to lose," the official, Nitzan Nuriel, said in reference to prison breakouts that accompanied the fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in February.
He said such militants were flush with weaponry looted in civil war-ravaged countries such as Libya and Yemen.
"If you want to buy, today, a mortar or a machinegun or even a MANPAD (anti-aircraft missile), all you need is a few dollars and you get it," Nuriel said. "The level of the threat is much more dramatic than it was a year ago."
The assessment was echoed by analysts gathered at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Centre event, though they emphasised the overall sapping of al Qaeda's popularity among Arabs.
"The common wisdom is that al Qaeda has been weakened by the Arab Spring when you make a global assessment, on an ideological basis," said Lorenzo Vidino of the Centre for Security Studies at ETH Zurich. "But I would have to concur that on a tactical level they have benefited in places like the Sinai. ................................" Source
This is the one thing about Perry that I like the most, his unwaivering stand for Israel and it’s protection. Kudu’s to him for this. His border and illegal aliens stance, not so much. Therefore, mainly because of his stance on Israel and his fiscal policies, if he ends up being our choice for a candidate after the primaries are completed, I will vote for him.
I will actually vote for any of our candidates for Prez with the exception of Ron Paul, whom I consider dangerous when it comes to foreign policy matters and his libertarian views on drugs, gay issues, etc. I like some of his fiscal views, but the rest of his views are garbage.
JR Perry doesn’t think the building of a fence is thoughtful.
Or enforcement such as with the AZ law.
Or the use of e-verify.
He likes his DREAM Act, dreams of open borders, and dreams of joint US and Mexican healthcare.
Well if that is not being for open-borders, I just don’t know what is.