Too bad he has gone to Mexico City to make friends. And he remains unrepentant over it!Perry is a border governor with a 1250 mile INTERNATIONAL border with Mexico. Texas does a lot of business with Mexico. Mexico is the number one trading partner with the U.S. Of course he meets with presidents of Mexico. He has worked to persuade Mexico to build a middle class.
Gov also has tried to meet with the president of the United States and he got the brush off -- and this request for more border security help (we Texans have put $400 Million and boots on the ground out of our on money) was handed to Valerie Jarret.
I'm sure that Obama didn't say these things to La Raza:
Gov Rick Perry spoke to LaRaza about the drug cartels, shared responsibility of border security and that it is Washington's responsibility to secure the border -- that the Federal government should support the military, deliver the mail and secure the border -- and they aren't doing their job. [HE RECEIVED a lot of applause] He spoke of the money Texas spends securing the border, that it must be sealed and then we can sustain legitimate commerce...He told about protecting the sanctity of the vote and strengthening our shared values, family, faith, hard work -- they are TEXAS values and we should unite as citizen's of one Nation under God and concentrate on what unites us. He told his Cuervo joke and they found it funny unlike the Liberal Latino Leaders Give Perry Lukewarm Response (or more likely they'd heard it before)
Texas has had a 1245 mile border with Mexico for more than a century before collaboration with Mexican regimes whose goal is La Reconquista - became accepted practice for Texas state governments.
In 2007, Felipe Calderon, president of Mexico, denounced "unilateral measures taken by the U.S. Congress and government " against Mexicans illegally in the U.S. and declared: "Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico."
In 2004, Vicente Fox, then president of Mexico, stated: "We are Mexicans that live in our territories and we are Mexicans that live in other territories. In reality, we are 120 million people that live together and are working together to construct a nation."
In 1998, Jose Pescador Osuna, then-consul general of Mexico, admitted: "We are practicing La Reconquista in California."
In 1997, Ernesto Zedillo, then president of Mexico, proclaimed: "I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important – a very important – part of it."
The fact that their is a profit to be made in trade does not justify allowing US sovereignty to be challenged and ignored! At one time no American politician would allow it.
And the goal of improving the living standards and education of Mexicans does not seem so lofty when the vast majority consider the US southwest to rightfully belong to Mexico and don't believe that require US permission to travel or reside their. At one time some similarly argued that if we improve the living standard and education of Muslims they would not hate or attack us. That really worked didn't it!