The state of Texas spends $100M yearly from state funds, using among other things an elite Texas Ranger force to try to secure our long border with Mexico. Rick Perry wants and has asked for drones in the air and boots on the ground (but not a fence except in urban areas where it helps).
The Federal government with it's social engineering, it's public school "don't ask for a child's U.S. citizen status" dictate, and their continued inaction on this, have put Texas in the position of resorting to working the problem as it relates to the state. So the children of illegal immigrants who have attended a minimum 3 years of high school in Texas and graduated (who want go on the college) - who are working toward citizenship, they are allowed to pay in-state tuition. This makes them more likely to contribute to the state economy than take from it. This is a big help because Texas pays a lot of money on education and health care costs due to the current federal inaction of securing the border.
I think a President Perry would have the brains and fortitude and the credibility, to finally do something about this -- no one else will. Gov. Perry has said that the border MUST BE SEALED before any talk of "where do we go next" will take place -- he said he will not repeat the cycle that keeps occurring. Gov. Perry also said in the Reagan Library debate that, "If President Obama thinks El Paso, Texas is safer today (which Obama said at a rally during a fund raising trip to the Mexican border town), either he has the worst Intel ever, or he is an abject liar."
Border related crime is a big problem for Texas (for the nation) -- it cost us money and it is a human tragedy of immense scale (crime, human trafficking, drug trafficking...)
Excellant post.
You have clarified a lot of Perry’s perspective.
Romney, et all don’t have a clue! Well, maybe Cain does.
Perry is an executive of a huge state, he has lived there and dealt with this all his life and my observation is that he is the most realistic, yet aggressive, about securing our borders and dealing with immigration.
But then, who cares about states rights anyways, huh?
I have now donned my CKV...”computer Kevlar vest”..ha.
” - - - he [ You Lie Obama ] is an abject liar - - - “
Over 30,000 Mexicans have been murdered in Mexico in the last 10 years. In one Mexican city school teachers have stopped teaching school because the Mexican drug gangsters are displaying the heads of their murdered victims on bridge railings.
Missionaries have been murdered in broad daylight just to steal their pickup trucks. Whatever the drug gangster wants to take they take, and murder anyone that they want to. It is small wonder that millions of Mexicans have sought safe refuge in the USA.
The primary driver for this slaughter is the US voracious appetite for drugs. Stop consuming drugs America, and restore Mexico to once again being a wonderful place to live and visit.