Horsesh*t. Perry has never opposed a border fence. His reservations about the fence are limited to the financial and practical feasibility of building and maintaining a fence along the entire Texas border. Those reservations are more than justified. He supports a border fence where it makes sense.
spending $252 a day per illegal child is so much more economically feasible. or not.
No, Rick was quite clear he wanted a smart fence and patchwork, not a real one. We collectively spent years going over this on FR and to say otherwise id simply not supportable with fact and history.
Semantics do not count. Rick Perry opposed a real fence.
That is but one of the reasons why Rick Perry is not to be seriously considered for the Republican nomination. His horrendous past combined with his recent praising of Hillary are others. I have not heard the Perry faithful defend his praising Hillary. Why is that?
“No, I don’t support a fence on the border,” he said, while referring to the long border in Texas alone. “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.”