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What have any of the other candidates have done?
Perry understand the border problem first hand.
He wants to secure the border so that it actually WORKS, not put up a long unsupervised fence which will do nothing to actually stop illegal immigration. He wants real people to guard the border, which is the only thing that works.
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Perry Blasts Obama on Border Security: Either He Has ‘Poorest Intel’ or is ‘Abject Liar’
As governor of the state with the longest stretch of border with Mexico, Rick Perry weighed in with his thoughts on security and blasted President Obama for once having stated that Texas’ border with Mexico was “safer than it’s ever been.” Perry went on to accuse the president of either having the “poorest intel” of any president in history, or of being an “abject liar” to the American people.
When asked what would make the U.S. border with Mexico secure, Perry responded that, to be successful, the task “requires a commitment” by the federal government to “put boots on the ground.”
Nonsense. The only thing that'll work is a multi-pronged approach -- cut off the welfare freebies, deport, erect a barrier, and deploy more manpower. Perry advocates only the latter.
Rick Perry Asks Obama for 1,000 More Border Troops in Texas
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20013096-503544.html
Texas Gov. Rick Perry greeted President Obama in Austin today with a request for an additional 1,000 National Guard troops in Texas at the U.S. - Mexico border.
....”he pulled a letter out of his pocket and handed it to White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.
The administration’s plan to deploy 1,200 National Guard troops across the border, including 286 in Texas, is “clearly insufficient,” Perry wrote in the letter.
“American lives, jobs and safety depend on a more robust federal commitment to border safety and security,” Perry said. “
Although I think he’s done-for, I was with him on the issue of the wall.
There’s a wall NOW. It’s called the law. If we don’t enforce it, we won’t enforce it with a wall either.
Walls have gates. If we’re not enforcing the law now, why would we be careful to keep the gates closed?
We will look the other way as they go through the gates, just as we look the other way right now as they break existing law.
Only difference is, the wall will waste money. Lots of it. Ongoing.
Oh, and it might attract vandals, graffiti artists, bombers, and smelly protestors.
Perry is pro-illegal alien. Period. He provides PREFERENTIAL treatment of them (for their votes) as opposed to REAL AMERICAN CITIZENS (including LEGAL aliens) that must pay FULL PRICE for instate tuition. Why should LEGAL American citizens pay for tuition for ILLEGAL law-breaking illegals?
That is the real issue and Perry has is no better than GWB on this issue.
E-verify
It boils down to him saying I don’t have a heart if I don’t think I should help pay for the education of people he thinks I should help pay for.
This guy needs to learn a lesson from Davey Crockett and he’s not getting my vote. He was. But now.....he’s not.
What BA@#@ he has to make such a statement. Screw him.
Tuition for illegals sunk Perry in my considerations for POTUS.
I live in TX. The Governor can send our NG to the border anytime he wants. Only thing is the state of TX has to pay for it. Lots of folks here are for that but we don’t get the say so.
Yeah, and we all know with certainty that a fence will do nothing because we've tried it already...
LAME!
This is a pat answer from the open borders crowd and it makes me want to hurl. I'm a secondary level social studies teacher specializing in both history and government. There are tons of examples across history that demonstrate that such obstacles work.
Going way back look at the Great Wall of China. More recently, look at the Berlin Wall. When that was up and running it was instant international news when even one person made it across. Yes there were lethal consequences like mine fields and machine guns, but the basic barrier concept is completely sound and forms the foundation of the very simple root idea. Today, look at the fences that Israel has erected along it's border crossings and sensitive areas. They have cut down on terrorist penetrations by over 90%.
In not advocating this simple and in the long term, less expensive option, I think Perry has shown his true colors. His performance at the debate was deplorable on many many fronts but I didn't appreciate being called "heartless." If he wins the nomination, of course, I'll support him a thousand percent. But I think he has lost my vote in the primaries, unless his tune convincingly shifts on this issue.
So, either they work underground...OR...Deport them?? You can't send an 18 year old back if he's been here 18 years...it's absurd..
They don't CARE about what Perry's done. All they care about is the fact that he may very well win the GOP nomination and he's not Sarah Palin. They will lie, spread rumors and innuendo and repeat half truths endlessly...because he's not Sarah Palin. They don't care how much damage they may be doing to our eventual nominee or how that damage may strengthen obama. All they care about is the object of their obsessive desire...Sarah Palin!
You do NOT protect your citizens when you actively make things cheaper for illegals to educate their illegally-present children in your midst. Texans may think it is ONLY Texans that bear the cost of making this compassionate decision, but Federal outlays for education in Pre-K, school breakfasts and lunches, additional funding for education that meets 'federal criteria', and so forth foists this on all the rest of us.
You do NOT protect your citizens when you allow assimilation of illegals into our collective society where they are free to move from state to state, once Texans have quasi-legitimated them.
On top of the blatantly illegal entry into this country, these people and their children bring enormous costs, out-of-the-norm crime, disease, and additional public services expenses in the midst of a recession and near-depression that has not gone away, despite government claims to the contrary.
This country is either SOVEREIGN, or it isn't and thereby relegated to third for fourth-world status. Make your mind up Texas. You trade your sovereignty for the votes of now-citizen Hispanics who have a mother-country connection to Mexico and the least desirable of their society despite the 'assimilation' they should have attained. Instead, we get La Raza and Reconquista.....
Your boy Perry is outta here in my book.
All of the actions in the article are more motion than results.
As a a great executive once said:
“Don’t tell me about all the money you spent and all the dust and smoke you churned up; tell me about the results you achieved.”
Of course as a Governor, what Perry can and cannot do to eliminate illegal entry are limited.
But as we have seen with George Bush’s waste of billions on his virtual fence, nothing is as nonporous as a solid fence of concrete, steel and wire. And that is what Perry has said he would not build as President.
I agree with everything you say Clairity but his attitude toward those of us that want to get this thing under control was somewhat disconcerting. He’s not backing down and that is disturbing to me and I’m a Perry supporter (at this point).
The story of American jobs and labor is deeply intertwined with predatory Federal, state and local taxation and regulation....
South Koreans sleep soundly on their border with NORKS because of American Taxpayer dollars and the American GI.
Why can’t Texans, New Mexicans, Arizonans and Californians?....BECAUSE
Illegal immigration is THE KEY to the perpetuation of the status quo in DC......
Predatory tax and regulatory policies-actions that basically serve to perpetuate and grow governments-leave what business is left in the country seeking disposable labor.
Illegal Labor is the Feds out for preserving the status quo regarding Taxes and Regulation. Interestingly, that is WHY the Feds encourage in-state tuition etc for illegals under-the-table -their presence providing disposable labor allows Federal, State and local regulatory and tax excess in the status quo to continue
Immigration is the ultimate litmus test as to the candidates in question commitment to meaningful regulatory and tax reform. If they are wishy-washy on the subject...they have no real intent to disturb the DC status quo...no matter how big their cowboy hat and six-gun.
Real”leadership” is that which will place Flyover Country’s interest ahead of the Feds....haven’t yet seen anything meaningful anywhere from anybody to indicate that might happen. We have just one more election cycle to make that happen via rule of law. Otherwise its the end of the run for America.