Then you have not been paying attention.
He has been pushing hard on border security since 2005. He has put lots of dollars towards it. He has pushing the job that Washington won’t do.
Sorry to burst the Perry bubble...but he has been weak on Border Security
When the Texas Legislature voted to halt the NAFTA SuperHighway (Coyote Corridor, Alien Autobahn, Dope Dealer Drive, etc..), Perry “pocket veto” the bill....at the close of the legislature. He has no intent on securing any border
Perry’s pro-illegal/anti-American agenda is the reason why Texas has such problems.
And, I wont get into his shennanigans at the recent Governors conference...pulling the mike away from Gov Palin was a career killer for him
Gov. Rick Perry, who built his re-election campaign on border security, told a gathering of border mayors today that building a wall along the border with Mexico is a "preposterous" idea.
"Now, strategic fencing in certain urban areas to direct the flow of traffic does make sense, but building a wall on the entire border is a preposterous idea," Perry said.
"The only thing a wall would possibly accomplish is to help the ladder business."
While Perry always opposed fencing the border, his re-election campaign de-emphasized that position.
Perry ran millions of dollars of television advertising portraying the border as an open zone of human and drug smuggling and as a potential pathway for terrorists. He launched a program to put live Internet cameras along the border and said he would ask the Legislature for $100 million for border security.
The campaign was widely seen as an effort to appeal to a Republican voting base angry at the federal government for failing to act to halt illegal immigration from Mexico and Central America.
Perry told the Texas Border Coalition that the national anti-immigrant rhetoric of the political campaigns was not constructive.
"We just concluded an election year that was very heavy on immigration rhetoric, and, I might add, very light on comprehensive solutions," Perry said.