Oh really!.....
Quote from Rick Perry.....“President Fox’s vision for an 'open border' is a vision I embrace.”
And read more on Perry's open border statements here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2764423/posts
Why didn’t you quote the rest of the sentence and following?
“as long as we demonstrate the will to address the obstacles to it. An open border means poverty has given way to opportunity, and Mexico’s citizens do not feel compelled to cross the border to find that opportunity. It means we have addressed pollution concerns, made substantial progress in stopping the spread of disease, and rid our crossings of illicit drug smuggling activity. Clearly we have a long way to go in addressing those issues.”
The rest of his statement shows that there are a lot of things that would need to be changed for borders to be “open.”
Here is what he says in his book “Fed Up!” published Nov. 2010:
“One of Washington’s greatest failures has been its unwillingness to secure our nation’s borders. Reasonable folks can disagree on many issues regarding immigration policy generally, but border security cannot be held hostage to another failed attempt at solving, in one fell swoop, all the problems of our immigration system. Our broken borders put lives at risk. They make a mockery of the rule of law.” page 116
“We can have all the immigration debates we want, but Americans are demanding that the border be secured first.” page 120
“Yet states and local communities have a duty to protect the safety of their citizens and, moreover, a long-sesttled right to facilitate enforcement of federal law. The longer the feds sit idly by, the more localities that will follow with measures similar to Arizona’s. A patchwork is exactly what we will have all over this country until the federal government finally decides to step up to the plate and address our border security problems.” pages 124-125