I live in the Houston area and I’ll tell you there is concern about the border BIG time by the average Joe and across the board.
Those of us who live in border states really “get it.” I don’t know that Trump does, he just tripped over his feet and then ran with it.
Perry takes a lot of c#ap about the border but I do believe that he would have closed it down. But his time passed. I’ve seen what Walker has done in Wisconsin against the odds and in the face of screaming, vile leftists mobs and I know he will do what he says.
I don’t understand why Walker has not gotten more traction. I know he made some comments in favor of amnesty years back, but they were mindless throw away remarks. His conversion seems fairly credible to me, it’s not like he has a long time close association with open borders fanatics like Bush and Perry do. Should have used the d-word though. That’s “deportation.”
What Walker did with public employee unions and is trying to do with higher education will have to be done on a nationwide scale if we ever want to crawl out of the fiscal gutter.
I don’t trust Trump on immigration, frankly. Trump is a lifelong opportunist who I think might say anything to get elected and then do a 180.
If anyone knows the history of Alberto Fujimori in Peru, he ran for president on an anti-market based economic platform and then did exactly what he campaigned against once in office. He used a populist stance to beat a much more principled man whose policies he then stole. That sort of thing is common in many countries. Both Trump and Fujimori are high IQ types who had careers outside of politics.
Perry turned every public college in Texas into a sanctuary city.