This is what has happened since...
Sarah Palin Would Like President Obama To Grow A Pair Of ‘Cojones’
Sarah Palin joins Gov. Brewer to launch border security Web site
Not in my world..he gives me the creeps..he looks like another DC insider..had enough of them sorry.
Will wonders never cease?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,592942,00.html
VAN SUSTEREN: All right, now, I know that your past as governor of Alaska didn’t — was not the same time that Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona has gotten into office, but I assume that sort of governor to governor...
PALIN: Yes.
VAN SUSTEREN: What’s your thought on the heat that she’s taking over this statute?
PALIN: I’m proud of Jan Brewer for standing up for the constituents in her state, sending a message to Washington, sending a message to President Obama saying, Hey, you need to do your job, sir. And if you’re not going to do it, OK, then we are compelled to do the job for you until you get it right.
President Obama has been suspiciously silent on this issue, hasn’t he? We don’t even know where he stands on immigration reform or securing our borders. He doesn’t talk about it. He gets to punt on that one. And that’s unfortunate because this is a big issue. It’s all about national security. It’s about our sister border states that are inundated with violence and with crime because people illegally crossing the border, engaging in illegal activities for too long now. And some of these border states are saying, Now we’ve had enough. I admire Jan Brewer for taking a stand.
VAN SUSTEREN: Why do you think — I mean, for 20-some years, maybe even longer, even going back to President Reagan — everyone has always said, We’re going to secure the borders.
PALIN: Yes.
VAN SUSTEREN: Nobody has done anything. I mean, or almost nothing.
PALIN: Because they’ve made it political and they haven’t understood that unsecure borders isn’t fair to anybody. It’s not fair to American citizens who ware here legally, paying taxes, following the rules, doing all the things that an American citizen is expected to do. It’s not fair to them. But it’s not fair to the illegal aliens, either, here. They want to come pursue an American dream. Some of them do want to be here to work. But they’re forever going to have to hide because, you know, government’s going to crack down on them when (INAUDIBLE)
So they need to follow that path of legal citizenship, obviously. But these politicians, presidents in the past who have not secured the border, they’ve made it a political issue. They haven’t wanted to tick off a potential base of Hispanic voters, so they haven’t made the tough decisions. And that’s no way to solve the problem. That’s no way to solve any challenge in America, by ducking and hiding and creating division and making these partisan issues out of it.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
VAN SUSTEREN: Well, we have still more with Governor Sarah Palin. Governor Palin is blunt about what she would do about illegal immigration. She’s going to tell you.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
VAN SUSTEREN: Continuing with former governor Sarah Palin on illegal immigration.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
VAN SUSTEREN: Both parties have made promises. I mean, we pull up sound bites where, you know, both sides, you know, Democrat, Republicans, say, you know, Secure the border, secure the border. And then once in office, we certainly don’t see a whole lot of action. Had the election gone another way, or even if you were president, what would you do about immigration?
PALIN: The very first thing is literally secure the border!
VAN SUSTEREN: How?
PALIN: People mock the idea of a fence. What’s wrong with building a fence? Yes, let’s physically secure the border. Let’s ramp up border control. Let’s provide the tools for those who are putting their lives on the line in order to stop illegal immigration of these aliens. Those are a couple of things.
And then you don’t start talking about amnesty, either, kind of as this last-minute, Oh, anybody who’s here in the country right now, we’re going to provide you amnesty, and even though you’ve broken the law and we are a nation of laws, you’ve broken that, we’ll still give you — because then there’s going to be a huge influx of those wanting kind of at the last minute to come over the border because they know that they will forever then receive that amnesty.
So you don’t start talking about that, but the very first thing you do is physically, literally secure those borders. It baffles me and most Americans why for all these years presidents, administrations have spoken about it but never done it.
Something that I will never understand, some people say that there are just too many illegal immigrants to find and deport because there 12 million or so, but these very same people continue to support the idea that we must track down and arrest every one that smokes pot, even though there are probably 50 million. Where is the logic?
Hey, I want Palin to come out more strongly against disguised amnesty than she has, but this thread is ridiculous:
1) She was McCain’s VP having to tow the ticket’s party line in this interview, and
2) Perry is an absolute disaster on illegal immigration.
Yeah if you like open borders and Mexico as the 58th state.
Yup Palin, like Mc Cain, is Pro Amnesty.
You're not from Texas nor do you live in Texas, is that correct?
The public is not voting for Bush 2(perry), no way no how. Obama already ran against Bush once, he’d love to get that chance again.
One quote from VP candidate Palin compared to ten years of doing nothing but pandering to illegals from Bush 2?
I’d say that comparison bodes well for Palin.
This is what has happened since...
Sarah Palin Would Like President Obama To Grow A Pair Of ‘Cojones’
Sarah Palin joins Gov. Brewer to launch border security Web site
Plus there is a more recent interview last year summer from FNC Bill O Reilly on this subject that is more relevent than this older one.
Then go find the links to Perry's panderings to La Raza.
Two different approaches. I'm not sure we can trust Perry to be anything more than W on this issue.
Why should illegals follow the rules when they get free stuff? Free healthcare, free food, free educations and can keep voting for the gravy train to roll in.
And to boot, they don’t have to pay taxes.
Only way to fight it is close the borders and enforce existing laws. Cut the anchor baby stuff too. No kid should be considered an American if the parents sneak in and are not citizens.
If there is a guest worker program, whoever hires them gets the bill for their healthcare while here and is held accountable for their return home.
Truth is, I don’t even know why we need a guest worker program. We have millions of unemployed Americans who can get to work. Too bad if they don’t like the job type. If you want to eat, you can take a job you may not like and be productive.
I know this will bring a lot of bashing, but I will vote for Obama if Perry is the nominee. I would rather fight and face a clear cut enemy than have a B.S.ing artist undercutting me and selling me out in back room deals while saying all the “Right” things in public. Please research what Perry has actually done to undercut the Tea Party, even as recent as the latest election. I am willing to research ANY canditate and admit to their faults. I do not understand why ANYONE on THIS site would refuse to see the truth unless they had a hidden agenda. Fess UP!
...Republican Gov. Rick Perry earned applause from the crowd [at a meeting of the Texas Border Coalition] when he said strategic fencing along the border makes sense but the idea of a complete wall or fence is “preposterous.”
Instead, he wants the federal government to establish a guest-worker program that will allow the government to track workers, he said.
...Perry was asked after his speech whether it was a good or bad idea to do away with citizenship as a birthright [via proposed Texas legislation].
“I think any of those types of legislation that create divisions are bad,” he said. “We need to look at ways to be bringing people together rather than driving wedges between them.”
That failure, combined with Perry’s comments that the U.S.-Mexico border fence was “idiocy” and that efforts to deny citizenship to U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants are “divisive,” have rung in the ears of anti-illegal immigration conservatives.
If we do not control illegal immigration, I guarantee this country is gone. Rick Perry is another George W. Bush on Illegal Immigration.
Perry has said that the Border Fence is Stupid,
Perry has said that he is against denying citizenship to baby’s born in the U.S. of illegan immigrants,
Perry is for providing in-state tuition benefits to children of illegal immigrants. (That is an incentive for the Mexican illegals to keep their children in school in Texas, knowing that they will get what only U.S. Citizens in Texas receive)
We had George W. Bush, who was awful on illegal immigration, we do not need George W. Bush Jr., or Rick Perry.
Just because we want to get rid of Obama, does not mean we need to elect a loser on illegal immigration, an issue, as important as the economy.
We don’t get tough on Illegal Immigration, we are done as a country.
Rick Perry will never get my vote, because of his weakness on illegal immigration and I am an American of Hispanic Heritage.
“No RINOs”
If you like open borders, you will love Rick Perry.
And the Arizona immigration law passed last year? “It's not for Texas,” says Perry.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/immigration-perry-and-a-divided-gop-2011-7
Schwarzenegger, Perry, Napolitano, Richardson urge "comprehensive" immigration reform
Texas Governor Perry says Arizona’s immigration law is not appropriate for Texas
A stereotype that gun owners are enabling (not one word about the Fast and Furious!)
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A family is exiled from the U.S.
Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Immigration Office (Part 3)
Latino-Indigenous Mexican Divide Stirs Greenfield
Hispanic student enrollment drops in Colquitt Co.
Graham asks for bipartisan help on jobs (RINO calls for GOP, Obama to pass amnesty legislation)
Homeland Security sued over immigrant detention
Perry '01 - 'Fox's vision for an open border is a vision I embrace'
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Bishops Criticize Tough Alabama Immigration Law [ Episcopalian Methodist and Roman Catholic bishops]
La Línea: Network, gang, and mercenary army
Violent Mexican drug gang, Zetas, taking control of migrant smuggling
Homeland Security sued over immigrant detention
Fast & Furious Straw Buyer Faces Charges for Gunrunning
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2012 Presidential Hopefuls' Immigration Stances (highlights: Perry D-, Bachman B-)
Seventeen (17) things that critics are saying about Rick Perry
Undocumented immigrants face checks on Amtrak, Greyhound
Battle in Greenfield, CA Shows How Illegal Immigration is Not About Race
Can Anyone Tell Me The Difference Between Rick Perry & John McCain on Immigration? (Vanity)
Rick Perry Has Concerns over Arizona Immigration Bill
Sarah Palin on Immigration (in her own words)
Number of illegal immigrants getting in-state tuition for Texas colleges rises
Curious, why do you think Perry is the best candidate?
Do you also feel he is the most conservative?