Rick Perry: Border Wall Nothing More Than Rhetoric

Legal Insurrection ^ | 09/05/2015 | Kemberlee Kaye

[Awgie]

Pathetic jellyfish responses. The guy is totally untrustworthy and incompetent.

Why is anyone even talking with or about him?

[TADSLOS]

Last dying gasp of a fraud.

[odawg]

“I think it’s appropriate to say, it’s good to have this conversation, it’s good that we are having this conversation that now for thirty years, this border has not been secured.”

Well Perry, that just means that having a conversation is useless. The meme, “When we build the wall, we can have a conversation” about the illegals already here is weasel words for amnesty. You can book it.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Cheap Labor Express is extremely worried that we might atually elect someone who would shut them down.

[windsorknot]

This guy does a great Bush impersonation.

[Lurkinanloomin]

“When we build the wall, we can have a conversation” about the illegals already here is weasel words for amnesty.

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Exactly right.

[Jane Long]

LOL...how fitting, for La Raza Ricky :)

[Norm Lenhart]

If only. Like Romney he will be around for years to come to push his liberalism.

[TexasCajun]

Let's travel back in time:

Rick Perry, "...a 2,420 mile Interstate Highway from coast to coast, nothing more then rhetoric."

Rick Perry, "...a 3,000 mile Intercoastal Waterway, nothing more than rhetoric."

Rick Perry, " a space trip of 238,000 miles to the moon, nothing more than rhetoric."

Rick Perry, the "Can't-Do" candidate.

[kabar]

Whether it’s this issue about these people on welfare, whether it’s the cost to states when it comes to the schools… You know all of the cost of this border that’s not secure has been mounting up and costing billions and billions of dollars.

Yet Perry supported in-state tuition for illegal aliens.

[grey_whiskers]

Did someone mention Rick Perry?

[KarlInOhio]

I've heard that based on the moats and ground defenses, Hadrian's wall was primarily to keep Scottish raiders from returning north with stolen goods and livestock and thus make it not worth their trouble to cross in the first place. The equivalent would be to restrict and require full ID on fund transfers to Mexico.

That being said, we should still build a border barrier. Now it might be possible to argue that there are a few hundred wilderness miles where it isn't worth it. Then let's build the first thousand miles and see whether we've hit the point of diminishing returns. We will still need observation of the fence and guards to quickly return those who crossed, or else the wall will just be an obstruction to take a couple extra minutes to cross. But the wall shows that there is a new seriousness about the issue. Also citizen videos of Mexicans climbing it with no repercussions will embarrass an administration far more that videos of the same Mexicans just walking across the border.

[Ditter]

You make it sound like Perry invited people in to attend college in Texas. That is not how it was. If the kid had been brought here as a child, attended Texas school, graduated highschool, and was applying for citizenship, they could have in state tuition.

In other words if they are here to stay he would rather have them educated.

[Mashood]

They probably won’t go over it...but under it.

[zeugma]

And parts of Hadrians wall still stand

[Ancesthntr]

Says the guy polling around 1%. You were a pretty good guv, Rick, but it is time to move on. The apparent nominee wants a wall, and a wall we shall have

[trebb]

Flashback - Rick Perry promises that Texas will close off its border all on its own if the Feds don’t do the job - PURE RHETORIC!!!

[Eddie01]

[Guardian Sebastian]

Then why did Congress vote twice to build it? I guess they think all they have to do is say it and not do it and we’ll all forget about it and be happy.

[USNBandit]

Trump is the first candidate to put into writing what he would do. He is also the first to publicly state what the others know, but won't admit. The key to illegal immigration is not border security. It is employment. Secondary is access to government support and programs. Pull those two and your 90% there.

On the border security side, I can't believe the awkward silence over one of the most directly attributable policies that has encouraged border crossings. Obama's illegal "dreamer" order was directly responsible for the massive increase in juvenile crossings. If I was a politician I would be hammering on that, and the inherent risks to those children. The Democrats can't run slave ships anymore so they have to get their plantation workers to self transport.