>>...Perry’s pandering to illegal aliens.<<
If you’re going to state something like this, back it up with at least one example, if one exists.
Because without a concrete example of his “pandering to illegal aliens,” I always find myself wondering if what people who say that don’t mean something more along the lines of “offering support to those legal immigrant families that we never should have allowed to become citizens in the first place.”
Perry seems to understand the difference. I’m not sure a lot of his border critics do.
“If you’re going to state something like this, back it up with at least one example, if one exists.”
Very fair request.
Here is one: Perry’s 2001 speech:
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/10688/
It’s hard for me to pick a limited selection of quotes from it, as I find the overall tone repulsive and the entire thing is pandering, in my opinion. Specific examples include praise of (1) Senator Lucio [big-time liberal Hispanic], (2) Pat Haggerty [“moderate” Republican, who I am happy to say was defeated by a conservative R, who in 2010 defeated the D!], and [3] a bunch of zingers along the lines of this: “President Fox’s vision for an open border is a vision I embrace, as long as we demonstrate the will to address the obstacles to it.”