Or, Perry from 2006 when he was trying to follow a perceived move to the political center (remember, before the Tea Party revival):
“Any of those types of legislation that create divisions are bad,” Perry said. “We need to look at ways to be bringing people together rather than driving wedges between them.”
From your 2006 link (at the very biased left-wing Houston Chronicle):
....”Good neighbors do not foster fear and engage in divisive appeals,” he said. “They seek solutions.”
Perry said he is opposed to building a fence or wall along the entire border with Mexico.
“Strategic fencing in certain urban areas to direct the flow of traffic does make sense, but building a wall on the entire border is a preposterous idea,” he said.
“The only thing a wall would possibly accomplish is to help the ladder business.”
Perry said the federal government needs to quickly enact immigration reform, and he said he supports a guest-worker program that would bring illegal immigrants out of the shadows.
“Our economy is greatly impacted by migrant workers. Let’s create a guest-worker program that takes these workers off the black market and that legitimizes their economic contributions without doing the same for their citizenship,” he said.
Perry said afterward that there needs to be a program that gives illegal immigrants in this country an “expanded period of time” to register for work, indicating they do not have to be on a citizenship track.
“There are a lot of people here who aren’t interested in citizenship,” he said.
“They’re interested in working.”....