hmmmmmm....
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/perry-repeats-opposition-to-us-mexico-border-fence/
“The fact is, it’s 1,200 miles from Brownsville to El Paso. Two things: How long you think it would take to build that? And then if you build a 30-foot wall from El Paso to Brownsville, the 35-foot ladder business gets real good.”
He opposes building a fence where it makes no sense. He wants to build a fence where it makes sense, and use other means to secure the border where a fence is not necessary and would be a waste of money.
There are thousands of miles of border. Hundreds of those miles are in places nobody would ever venture, much less try to cross the border. If you built a fence everywhere it made sense, people would hop in boats and use the gulf to get here long before they tried to cross tje desert — boats would be a lot easier.
I would note that nobody proposes building a fence on the entire border (which extends 12 miles out into the ocean). They also won’t build a fence along the coastline to keep boats. They figure coast guard assets will do that job. Perry believes you can use border agents and technical assets to protect parts of the border where a fence is impractical or useless.
Also, if you use Google maps to look at the actual border, you’ll see that not only is the border often in the middle of the river, it also is sometimes on our side, sometimes on the other side. How are you going to build a fence ACROSS the river? You certainly don’t want to fence people off from river access.
Perry has called for fully securing the border. However, unlike politicians who just want to say what they think people want to hear, and have no idea what the border IS or how you would really secure it, Perry won’t just say “build the fence”. It’s sad that so many people who really want to secure our borders have adopted a catch phrase and think it is a real plan.