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    Perry chides Obama for seeing Texas mainly as ATM

    White House blasts Rick Perry for playing politics on border security; Perry chides Obama for seeing Texas mainly as ATM

    By Todd J. Gillman


    Gov. Rick Perry talks to the media on June 23, 2014, in Weslaco, Texas, after touring the McAllen Border Patrol station. Perry said the border is not secure, adding, "This is an absolute humanitarian catastrophe waiting to happen." (AP Photo/The Monitor, Gabe Hernandez)

    updated with responses from Perry’s office and RNC.

    WASHINGTON – The White House hit back hard Thursday against Gov. Rick Perry, accusing him of playing politics with the humanitarian crisis at the border.

    “It’s hard to take seriously Gov. Perry’s concerns,” said White House press secretary Josh Earnest, swatting aside Perry’s insistence on a border tour during President Barack Obama’s two-day Texas trip next week.

    In a caustic and unusually personal attack on a governor from the White House briefing room, Earnest questioned Perry’s sincerity when it comes to solving the border crisis.

    If the commitment were genuine, he said, “He could probably be pretty useful. I hear he’s a pretty persuasive fellow. He could pick up the phone and call some of those Republican members of Congress from Texas who are standing foursquare against commonsense immigration reform.”

    Obama will be in Dallas on Wednesday, raising money for House Democrats at the home of lawyer Marc Stanley. He’ll then fly to Austin for another fund-raising event, and stay there overnight.

    On Thursday he’ll do yet another fund-raising event in Austin. And he’ll speak about the economy, alongside “folks who have written him letters.” It’s a continuation of a “day in the life” tour. Last week in Minnesota, he sat down for burgers with a letter-writing mom named Rebekah Erler.

    Republicans hit back.

    “It’s hard to take President Obama’s commitment to border security seriously when it appears he thinks of Texas more as an ATM machine than as the center of the greatest domestic crisis of the day,” said Perry spokesman Travis Considine. At GOP headquarters in Washington, spokesman Izzy Santa chided Obama for pointing fingers.

    “The next time the president wants to lecture Republicans on immigration, he should instead reflect on his habit of politicizing the humanitarian and border crisis occurring on the U.S.-Mexico border while prioritizing money and politics when he has a chance to do his job,” Santa said. “But honestly, the president’s action is fitting; after all he did promise immigration reform within his first year in office and didn’t do anything.”

    At the White House, reporters peppered Earnest with questions about Obama’s decision to omit any border component from his Texas trip, given the scale of the border crisis and how close he’ll be anyway. Since October, 50,000 unaccompanied minors or families with children have streamed into Texas and other border states illegally. Obama himself has called it a humanitarian crisis. He’s beefed up enforcement, dispatched top aides, and had his vice president and secretary of state in Central America talking with top leaders about the dangers and impetus for the migration surge.

    A U.S. Border Patrol boat secures the area as U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske, left, talks about the dangers of crossing the U.S. border for a Danger Awareness Campaign next to the Rio Grande in Mission, Texas, on Wednesday. The campaign is a Spanish-language outreach effort aimed at highlighting the risks and undercutting the perceived rewards of illegal immigration. (AP Photo/The Monitor, Gabe Hernandez)

    “The president is comfortable with the very granular information that he’s receiving about conditions on the border and what the federal government is doing to meet these challenges,” Earnest said.

    Perry suggested Wednesday cutting off U.S. aid to Mexico until that country stems the illegal flow of child migrants, mostly from its own southern neighbors.

    Texas Democratic Party spokesman Emmanuel Garcia criticized Perry for a “gun slinging cowboy foreign policy…. Here in Texas we don’t turn our backs on our neighbors.”

    Earnest rejected Perry’s call to cut aid.

    “That’s not going to happen,” he said, adding, “Those who might be complaining about the president’s actions are more interested in landing political blows than they are in solving this problem.”

    Earnest challenged Perry to use his own bully pulpit to encourage Congress to embrace comprehensive immigration reform as a long-term solution. A bipartisan Senate plan, stalled for over a year in the House, would have curbed demand for illegal immigration while also beefing up border security, Earnest argued.

    “The president’s getting regular updates and has a very good sense both of what’s happening there on the ground and how effectively resources are being deployed to confront those challenges,” Earnest said, asserting that “the reason that some people are suggesting the president should go to the border while he’s in Texas is that they’d rather play politics than to try to address some of these challenges.”

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    Visits states shortly after floods and tornadoes but not TX Presidential manufactured "humanitarian crisis" is nothing but cowardly, but he has never been anything else. I agree with Perry, he is using TX for the nations ATM machine, and I do not see any evidence of the other states objecting or offering assistance. Thirteen alien "dumps" in TX now, how many in any other state? What has happened to USA mantra, "All for one, one for all?"

    Texans are patient, but once pissed off they are not so nice, the president may be manufacturing another scene that he will have much trouble with.

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    This president does not like Texas, conservative and productive two things a socialist hates with a passion. In order to have there socialist utopia they must destroy conservative states the immigration buses are part of the plan.
    I'm old with many opinions few solutions.

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    We will see about that. Perry needs to do more that run his mouth. He needs to put some action into his words.

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