Posted on 09/03/2011 1:35:22 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry says he opposes a fence along the U.S. border with Mexico.
Speaking to hundreds of New Hampshire voters at a private reception Saturday afternoon, the Texas governor says a fence would be ineffective and take too long to build.
The comments, which produced one angry shout, expose a rift with some conservative voters over Perry's immigration record. Tea party activists in Texas have been particularly upset by his steady opposition to the fence. He also signed a law giving illegal immigrants in-state tuition for Texas universities.
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Looks like ole Ricardo Perrito is keeping his options open for a potential Obama/Perry 2012 ticket...
You’re right, I’d let highly skilled workers in. But proponents of “guest worker” programs are generally talking about Mexicans with 8th grade educations.
Protecting the states from invasion is one of the primary duties of the office.
If he won’t keep his oath to protect the life, liberty and property of the American people, he’s disqualified himself right out of the gate.
“The Fix is in, its either open borders with Perry or open borders with Hussein.”
Since that issue is a wash, look at the rest of the issues facing us this election. I ask you to vote accordingly.
If we do not exit those who broke in we will lose this country.There is no allegiance through amnesty. If America wants to remain in control we will have to start creating a respectable labor pool from within.
A WELL-DESIGNED fence will slow it down and give operational control if guards are put there.
When you round up 500 Americans willing to pick crops, send me their names and I'll get them a contract.
When you round up 500 Americans willing to pick crops, send me their names and I'll get them a contract.
That is because NH believes in ‘Live free off of pork or die”
first in nation guarantees much porko...
Agree with your solutions.
As a highly skilled worker thanks for the stab in the back.
You won't find many videos of Palestinians jumping over the Israeli border fence like jack-rabbits.
If you want to get rid of illegals, start hitting illegal EMPLOYERS hard.
You've got a point there. Some illegals will simply go to a underground cash-only lifestyle, but you're right, many will leave.
But the Dem's won't go for tougher laws because most illegals are future Dem voters.
And the Rep's, well they're mainly spineless kick-the-can-down-the-road types.
After every big storm the GDR would go out there and roll over the mines and blow them up. Then they'd put in new mines.
There was a simple chicken wire fence along most of the sector I was on ~ ON OUR SIDE. It was there as a safety device. You didn't want to get any closer to the border than that chicken wire fence because there were MINES on the other side, and if one went off you could get injured. Plus, sometimes those mountain storms were bad enough that the mines washed out of the zone ended up on our side. There were some "divots" where they'd run the fence back further up the hill so we'd know the area beyond wasn't safe even though it was well within the American zone.
The German border patrol had nominal command over us concerning where we would go ~ many times we'd walk along with them and they'd discuss the mine fields, the loose mines, and that fence.
While there a VOPO tried to escape in the zone up near Hof. He ran across the minefield and missed all the big ones, but he hit a couple of little poppers ~ then one of his guys shot him (for the reward), and the Russians took a couple of days to retrieve him (with a steam roller).
I don't care who you were ~ our guys, their guys, border patrol for GDR or West Germany, or the Russians, or just tourists, spies and others who ended up around there, YOU WERE VERY CAREFUL.
Mines have no conscience and are unrelentingly cruel.
I've seen it. Done it. Been There. A mine field would work quite well. They don't even have all that expensive a maintenance cost ~ and you can put them in the mountains ~ 'cause I've done duty in the mountains with a minefield in front of me.
They are just nasty as all get out and send a clear message ~ get a tourist visa and take the plane to Phoenix!
Comprehensive immigration reform requires a fence, maybe a mine field or two, AND some serious evaluation of visa holders as they enter at our airports. Right now we depend on the consulates abroad to control the visas ~ and they clearly do a poor job. 40% of our illegals are people who entered legally and overstayed! A little interrogation at the airport as they come into the country would help control that. We could use computer systems to back us up on that ~ match faces, pull up criminal records, medical records, all that stuff ~ see what's up.
I am not a clown. That is a liberal trick attacking the person instead of the position. It shouldn’t fly here on Free Republic. I am as conservative as they come but I am also pragmatic. Did you read the post about the length of the border and the terrain. What part of the recently discovered runway of tunnels did you miss. Don’t pour money and resources into something that won’t work, find a plan that has a likelihood of success by exploiting what we know about human nature. People will do anything to get a better life for their families. They are willing to die by the scores, face rape along the way by their coyotes and the possibility of being exploited as sex slaves. The fence doesn’t exist that can stop people from getting in with that level of desperation. I think people that go on about fences are looking for the easy solution, a straightforward response that will stop the problem, but it is the path to hell, money will be wasted, people will die, contractors will bilk the Gov’t and illegals will flood the country.
We need to recognize that there are some jobs like picking berries that Americans are not willing to do in the numbers we need. So we need visas for workers, tied to actual job requests filtered through state and local government. If there are Americans who want those jobs visas will not be requested by the companies. If we get our country back on track there will be jobs again that do not require us to become migrant workers. Our quotas for legal immigration are politically skewed and invite in people that do not have skills we need. That practice should be addressed. We need to enforce the laws on the books and stop supporting people who are here illegally. It is at the point that they are demanding their rights when they have none.
That’s a problem, isn’t it?
We have a massive underclass who could indeed pick crops but won’t. Will not. Too hard.
And they’re not Mexican.
Gonna pay 'em fifty bucks an hour to pick lettuce? Is that you, Senator McCain?
If other cherry growers aren’t paying below market wages, there’s no problem with paying what the American labor market demands. And that’s not much in this economy. Pay what the legal labor market demands!
If you say so. When we needed him to, in a clutch, support us, he was not 100% for us. “Oh, I think it’s great for the AZ third world sewer (here, have an Amicus bone!), but not for swell civilized us!” Therefore, your guy has to convince me why the law is bad for TX if it’s so wonderful for AZ. And he has a long road to claw back from. If he supports the law in AZ, but not in TX, then I fear for how this guy would be a CEO to the whole nation.
Don’t worry. He won’t try. It’s ridiculous. Nowhere else to go anyway, right? A no vote for Perry is a whole vote for Obama, right?
If you’re highly skilled you can compete in the market.
After 45 years of ‘lottery’ immigration and all the illegal immigration, we need to improve our ratio of smart, skilled workers—and there is plenty of global demand for their product.
Whatever. I’ve heard it all before (Status Quo)
I’m done listening to it.
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