[Carling]

It’s easy to lob bombs about immigration when one is a governor of Alaska or a Rep. from Minnesota.

Could Rick Perry himself deport illegals during his term of governor of Texas? Nope. It was a tough call for him, but illegal immigration is not a state issue if the federal government won’t enforce the law. This applies for the W. Bush years as well as the Obama years.

[C. Edmund Wright]

You make some very good points. Each state has its particular problems and its particular situations and its particular constituencies. I think we call them realities.

[mac_truck]

Could Rick Perry himself deport illegals during his term of governor of Texas? Nope.

Something Perry could have done was keep his mouth shut about Arizona's tough new immigration law..but he didn't.

[Netizen]

Why won't he pass E verify?

In a January 2010 gubernatorial debate, Gov. Perry said: "E-Verify would not make a hill of beans' difference when it comes to what's happening in America today. You secure the border first, then you can talk about how to identify individuals in an immigration situation.

If you make it so that they cannot get jobs, they will not come. If we enforce our laws and stop giving them federal monies, they will stop coming and the border will be easier to defend/watch/seal.

Rather than pass E-verify, he wants Congress to pass a guest worker program. pfffft!