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Perry is not Bush. He has put Texas assets on the border which Bush never did and he has asked the feds to put troops on the border and I don’t remember Bush doing that either. He may not be as tough on this issue as many would like but he is better than Bush was.

Sorry but throwing money away at a problem using ineffective methods proves nothing. Bush did the same thing.

The problem is that Perry is against everything that would actually solve the problem, everything that is effective:

1. E-Verify
2. Interior Enforcement like AZ1070 that would actually make uncomfortable to be here, hard to find a job.
3. Border Wall/Fence.

Then he makes he hands out candy, so to speak, in the form of in-state tuition for Illegals already here, effectively putting out the welcome mat and saying with a wink and a nod, it's OK, we're really not all that serious about keeping Illegal Immigrants out of Texas.

You then couple that with the low-income social programs he has implemented with no controls in them to keep Illegals from getting state level benefits they have no right to and all Perry is saying to Illegals is, come on over, you're welcome!

So instead of actually fixing the issue, we get a bunch of nonsensical platitudes from Perry, and him actually making it worse by putting the welcome mat out.

I think a lot of your beef may be with the feds. Since Texas is not the only state with this problem, I am under the impression that the federal government encourages or requires states to make “assiatnce” (welfare) available to illegals. That being said, Perry is not as tough as I would like on illegals. No candidate that is likely to win the nomination is very good on it in my view. Perry has the longest record with it because he has been governor of Texas, a border state, for over a decade so he will catch the most flak for it. Can you name another Republican Presidential candidate who has taken more concrete steps than Perry to curb illegal immigration?