Thread: Perry tells NH no to border fence

Perry tells NH no to border fence
By STEVE PEOPLES
Associated Press
Sep 03, 2011 4:25 PM EDT

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry says he opposes a fence along the U.S. border with Mexico.

Speaking to hundreds of New Hampshire voters at a private reception Saturday afternoon, the Texas governor says a fence would be ineffective and take too long to build.

The comments, which produced one angry shout, expose a 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 illegal immigrants in-state tuition for Texas universities.

New Hampshire Republicans are just getting to know Perry. He entered the presidential contest three weeks ago and has already surged to the lead in national polls. Saturday's visit was Perry's third to New Hampshire so far.

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Perry tells NH no to border fence
By Steve Peoples
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: September 3, 2011, 4:43 PM

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - He may have been 2,000 miles from the border, but Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry's immigration record in Texas quickly became the focus in New Hampshire Saturday afternoon.

Speaking to hundreds of Granite State voters at a private reception, 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. "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."

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 illegal 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 illegal 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.

Saturday's visit marks the third time he 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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"No, I don't support a fence on the border," he said. "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."

Perry has the la raza talking points down perfecto. If fences do not work, then why does the White House have one surrounding it? Will Perry order the fence be removed, if God forbid he he should ever be elected.

Texas is crawling with illegals and Perry seems just fine with that.

We should build a temporary fence. Just station Nat's Guard troops, armed, on the border at one hundred yard intervals.

Here we go again - they're dragging out that old, "fences don't work" argument. If fences didn't work, we wouldn't still be building them to keep people out of places we didn't want them to go. DUH!!!

How much do you want to bet Perry has a fence around his property!?!

I don't trust Perry. He's too much like former Prez Dubya Bush, who has a lousy immigration-control record, and persecuted our own border-patrol agents for perceived political advantage.

If elected President, Perry would fast-track the NAFTA Super Highway, which would splinter American sovereignty, and throw American truckers out of work. I can also picture him agreeing to some kind of Amnesty for 12-20 million illegal aliens, which would further damage the American Middle-Class. He would agree to the Amnesty without the Southern border being completely secure, just as Bush wanted. After all, he doesn't want to complete building the border fence.

2008 Presidential Candidate Duncan Hunter Sr says that a President Hunter could and would build a border fence within 6 months.

Perhaps the only reason why Perry entered the race is because Michelle Bachmann, a true Conservative, won the Iowa straw poll. There are forces within the Republican Party, and elsewhere, who either believe a true Conservative cannot win, or simply don't want it to happen. That's why they asked Perry to enter the race.

This is similar to 2008, when McCain, masquerading as a Conservative, unexpectedly won the New Hampshire Primary, when he was written-off just the summer before, and his Campaign was almost out of money.

Now that Perry has entered the race, the News networks are going to tout him as the front-runner, even if they have to exaggerate, or mis-represent, results of sample polls of various voter pools. It's as if they're being ordered to do so.

Then, when the Nov 2012 elections finally come, they'll have the electronic voting machines primed-up to flip the voting results one way or the other. They even get their choice of which candidate to flip it to, depending on the political climate in Nov 2012.

Yeah, Perry's another neocon like dubya. No way he gets my vote.

Bachman's a true conservative? Perhaps. I don't know that much about her. What are her views on illegal immigration? Does she support a "path to citizenship", i.e. amnesty?

What are her views on the USA being policeman of the world and us having military bases all over the world with thousands of our troops stationed there?

Michele Bachmann gaffes continue with Elvis, while attacking military
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