Rick Perry Finds Immigration Keeps Coming Up As Issue

[Jeanfromfillmore]

This guy is another McCain in a nice suit. What a piece of work the GOP is spitting out. What is happening to this country when we can't seem to find candidates that want what the US citizens want, but sure know how to pander and spin.


On Campaign Trail, GOP Presidential Candidate Rick Perry Finds Immigration Keeps Coming Up As Issue
He was campaigning in New Hampshire, but Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry found himself explaining his views on how to deal with the U.S.-Mexican border.
Speaking to hundreds of Granite State voters at a private reception Saturday, but, the Texas governor was asked whether he supported a fence along the Mexican border.
“No, I don’t support a fence on the border,” he said, while referring to the long border in Texas alone. “The fact is, it’s 1,200 miles from Brownsville to El Paso. Two things: How long you think it would take to build that? And then if you build a 30-foot wall from El Paso to Brownsville, the 35-foot ladder business gets real good.”
Instead, Perry said he supported “strategic fencing” and National Guard troops to prevent illegal immigration and violence from Mexican drug cartels.
The answer produced an angry shout from at least one audience member. And it exposed an ongoing 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 undocumented immigrants in-state tuition for Texas universities. And Texas tea party groups sent Perry an open letter this year expressing disappointment over his failure to get a bill passed that would have outlawed “sanctuary cities,” municipalities that protect undocumented immigrants.
Perry has surged to the lead in national polls since joining the presidential race just three weeks ago. But New Hampshire Republicans are just getting to know him.
“I think there are a lot of questions out there still,” said tea party activist Jerry DeLemus, chairman of the Granite State Patriots Liberty PAC. “We don’t know him very well.”
Even in New Hampshire, he said illegal immigration is a key issue with his members and raised concerns about Perry’s immigration policies. DeLemus said a border fence should be part of any policy.
“Any deterrent is a good deterrent,” he said after Perry’s second private reception in Chichester.
Saturday’s visit marks the third time Perry visited the first-in-the-nation primary state since joining the race.
Despite having deep Southern roots and conservative social positions, the Texas native has indicated he will compete aggressively in New Hampshire, where both Republicans and independents vote in the primary election.

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[wetibbe]

Rick Perry is a Democrat in sheep's clothing. He endorsed Al Gore.


Karl Rove claims he flipped Perry and converted him to Republicanism.

Unfortunately Perry has surged ahead in the GOP line up. Uber Conservatives like Ron Paul and Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman sound good but have little to no chance of getting elected.

This is what I have been saying. They look good on paper but someone more centrist with some appeal to the left and Independents will take the brass ring.

[ilbegone]

Some of what Perry said about the fence is right:

“The fact is, it’s 1,200 miles from Brownsville to El Paso. Two things: How long you think it would take to build that? And then if you build a 30-foot wall from El Paso to Brownsville, the 35-foot ladder business gets real good.”

And Brownsville is closer to Mexico City than to El Paso. The Fence sounds good, but, except in place near population centers and other places of high traffic, will be a waste of resources.

The very best is to address self interest and the money it is concerned with.

When it is no longer in the interest of employers to hire illegal aliens, most will quit coming due to economic self interest. It will no longer be in the interest of employers to hire illegals when, in some manner, it is too painful to do so. That will mean that the self interest of politicians finds it too painful to continue double talking about stopping illegal immigration while supporting employers and illegal aliens.

Ditto with the welfare doled out to immigrants of all stripes of legality and from all over the world.

The fact that the LA immigration court denies 60% of removal petitions. That while the Obama administration has actually deported more aliens than perhaps any other administration, it actively obstructs removal of the rest. American Cities, Counties and States cater to illegals - it starts with City Hall. The education system caters to and propagandizes the children of illegal aliens - failing to meaningfully educate the majority of them - while pandering to American brown racists. The system needs to be taken back.

As well, just who does the media pander to?

And we have to meaningfully address the demand for illegal drugs in the United States as a large part of the problem of illegal drugs and the cartels which convey them. More money is sent to Latin America through the drug trade than by remittances, and the money goes to ruthless international criminals rather than families. In this regard, we have to quit pointing fingers at Latin America and have a hard look at our own country.

All else is hollow talk and and a waste of time and resources. As I have said before illegal aliens are the symptom of the disease, not the disease itself. Treat the made in America, burrowed into government disease and the border hopping symptoms go away.