Thread: Fikac: Perry's tightrope walk on immigration

Fikac: Perry's tightrope walk on immigration
By PEGGY FIKAC
Austin Bureau
July 18, 2010, 9:08PM

AUSTIN — GOP Gov. Rick Perry is walking a fine line as he rejects importing Arizona's get-tough immigration law but blasts the feds for challenging it and refuses to take part in a border governors' conference forced out of Phoenix by a boycott.

Bashing the law would be "political suicide," especially with the Republican base, said Mark Jones, Rice University political science professor, citing polls showing majority support for the law and opposition to the federal government's effort to block it.

But with Hispanics in particular worried over the law's civil rights implications, championing such a law for Texas would be risky, too.

"He doesn't need a majority (of the Hispanic vote), but he needs a third, a quarter," Jones said. "He also does not want it to become an issue that Latinos mobilize around. ... He is on a tightrope here."

So Perry keeps his balance by saying the law's not a good fit for Texas but fine for another state to try on.

He was supportive of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer in a Fox News interview when she canceled the border conference after six Mexican governors said they'd boycott it due to the law. He said he wouldn't attend the meeting if it were moved elsewhere.

"It is supposed to be in Arizona. ... This is Arizona's time. That is what we told Jan," Perry said. After New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said he'd host the conference, Perry spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger confirmed Perry wouldn't attend.

Perry said of the law, "I totally respect Jan's position of being able to do what she feels and her legislature feels they need to be doing on that border."

He also has touted Texas joining in a court brief asserting states' authority to enforce immigration requirements, after the federal government sued. "Until the federal government secures the border, I expect more states to legislate in an effort to protect their citizens," Perry said in a news release.

Democratic challenger Bill White said communities would be less safe if police were diverted from combating crime to doing the federal government's immigration work - much as Perry early on expressed concern that an Arizona-style law would turn law officers away from existing duties.

If elected, White promised to veto any similar Texas legislation, as my colleague Gilbert Garcia reported, and challenged Perry to do the same. Cesinger said it's "premature to speculate about any legislation."

And it could make a candidate lose his balance.

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POLITICIANS MUST NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT ILLEGAL ALIENS WHEN THEY RUN FOR OFFICE. ILLEGAL ALIENS ENTER THE UNITED STATES WITHOUT VISAS OR OVERSTAY. THEREFORE, THEY MUST BE DEPORTED. PERIOD. WE DO NOT NEED AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS. ENFORCE THE LAWS ALREADY ON THE BOOKS.

Most informed Americans know the who and what of Rick Perry.

However, It is a shame the voters in Texas didn’t consider the millions who have died to keep America a free and sovereign country. Freedom was apparently not a consideration.


Ron Paul: Perry's Bilderberg Attendance Proof Governor Part Of "International Conspiracy"

Texas Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul has added his voice to those who believe Texas Governor Rick Perry should be investigated for a criminal violation of the Logan Act after he jetted off to meet with foreign elites yesterday at the Bilderberg Group conference in Istanbul.


Perry's trip to Turkey is a clear violation of the Logan Act which states that "Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both."


Since Perry has not received authorization from Congress, the U.S. government or the American people to meet with Bilderberg luminaries, where policy that impacts the world is secretly discussed in a wholly undemocratic fashion, his visit represents a criminal act.

Speaking on the Alex Jones Show yesterday, Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul agreed that Perry should be investigated for a potential violation of the Logan Act.


"This information about him going over there and violating the Logan Act and getting involved - I'm just impressed that that's in the ordinary media - I think that's encouraging too," said the Congressman.
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Paul said that Perry's attendance was "A sign that he's involved in the international conspiracy."


Perry's press secretary declined to give a statement when we called and denied any knowledge of the Logan Act, yet seemed to be fully aware of it in claiming Bilderberg was a private meeting. Since the Logan Act also bars private citizens from negotiating with foreign officials, Perry is still violating the law.

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"He doesn't need a majority (of the Hispanic vote), but he needs a third, a quarter," Jones said. "He also does not want it to become an issue that Latinos mobilize around. ... He is on a tightrope here."

Has he considered that a large number of legal Hispanic citizens are
against illegal immigration and want the border sealed and illegals
deported like the rest of us? Why do they assume ALL Hispanics are open
borders kooks?

Def