“Nobody has dealt with this issues more than I have,” he said. “Texas governor, a border governor, you have to deal with these issues. You can’t just talk about it and say, ‘Oh, let’s build a wall from Brownsville to El Paso and that will take care of it.’ We have to live with reality.” …When one is a leader of men, one has the power and obligation for the sake of the rule of law to shape reality to that end, not succumb to it (i.e. acquiesce to a lawless end).
It’s absolutely fair to ask Perry what he did to further that goal in Texas. Ask loudly, ask often.