California has been AWOL on border issues as well. So has New Mexico until the recent change in administration. Arizona, OTOH, has taken some leadership in the area without making the excuses which you just made for Perry.
BTW, it is not the duty of the taxpayers in the 46 states which do not share a border with Mexico to shed congressional seats to border states which have inflated their population with illegal aliens, nor is it our duty to subsidize all the social services which illegal aliens demand, but nobody asks us. They just take our money and our congressional representation without asking.
Better late than never but we've been having this party for decades and those of you not affected have ignored it. Why do you think the Feds have not helped secure the border? Could it be that you don't care until it knocks on your door?
So if you want to help...don't gripe at the border states, gripe at your own congressmen!