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Yes! I'm certain the Houston Comicle expanded on his remarks. But you must quote this -- it can not be divorced from his remarks:

2007: [excerpt] "Perry, in Mexico with a Texan trade mission seeking opportunities in areas like renewable energy, said the federal government’s plan to build a wall along much of the border to keep out illegal immigrants was “idiocy.”

“We need those individuals to continue to grow our economy,” Perry told a briefing with reporters.

“If you show up illegally, without your card or you’re here as a criminal element, I’m for throwing the book at those folks, but the issue of people who want to legally, thoughtfully and appropriately come to America to work and help us build our economy — we should quickly come up with a program and an identification card to do that.” [end excerpt] Source

Sorry I left that out. So Rick Perry says we shouldn't build a border to keep out illegal immigrants because, to quote your article, "We need those individuals to continue to grow our economy", and then he talks about a program that would allow those people to come here and work, that would otherwise be here illegally.....that sounds an awful lot like some kind of open borders.

At first I read it as an amnesty program, another of his "guest worker" things, but now it seems like he wants to come up with an identification card for people to come over and work without becoming American citizens, and that definitely strikes me as open borders.