how can you possibly be for Perry given his open border position? That position screws up practically everything else in America, except for black kids without two parents.
He's not for an open border. He wants UAVs and troops on the border. He has added Texas Rangers to enforce the border.
OTOH, somebody sure seems to be whispering in the ears of conservatives that he wants an open border.
Perry is strongly FOR border security. As Governor, he has spent hundreds of millions of Texas tax dollars securing and patrolling the border with Mexico. NumbersUsa, who finds fault with EVERYTHING (Perry=D-, Palin=D) finds Perry "good" on border security, and says he would be rated "excellent" on border security if he would publish his presidential plan for securing the border.
Perry doesn't want to fence off the Rio Grande and cede a valuable river to Mexico. I agree with him. Some think stopping one illegal is worth giving up valuable land to a foreign country, but I don't.
BTW, a major problem we have is that people come into the country LEGALLY, through the legal checkpoints, but then overstay their welcome. In Texas, Perry has pushed for ways to track legal aliens to make sure they leave when their visa expires -- a fence does NOTHING for this major problem, and every candidate should have to give us their plan for that to be called "good" on border security.