Translating for Rick Perry: Immigration
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Posted by John Coby
6:25 AM, 8/30/2011

Rick Perry is the guy that we, here in Texas, tend to referred to as "all hat and no cattle". He struts around talking tough about immigration calling for sanctuary city legislation and threatening to pass Arizona style immigration reform. But, when it's time to "git er dun"he doesn't. Not one single immigration bill was passed this last legislation session. Not one, as in Rick Perry's own words "nothing".

Immigration

When Rick Perry says "immigration" he really means nothing. Over the last ten years Perry has done absolutely nothing but talk about immigration. He called for an Arizona style immigration reform bill with a super majority in the House and special session rules to override any block in the Senate, and yet when it was actually time to get it done, it quietly failed.

There is a good reason why Rick Perry will not address immigration. His name is Bob Perry, the home builder. Bob Perry is Rick Perry's largest donor and is the largest donor to republicans in the country. Bob's attitude towards illegal immigration is pretty well known. Here is a snippet of what he and many other conservative business men said about immigration from an op-ed in the Dallas Morning News: (a copy can be found here)

But few young Americans want to do hard physical labor, particularly in our climate.

Not only that, but immigrant workers renew and reinvigorate America. They remind us what it's like to give a job your all. We talk about old-fashioned family values; they live them.

These are good people with good values doing work that we need done, reaching for the American Dream and helping make it a reality for all.

Texas' economy is dependent upon illegal immigrants. Bob Perry knows this. Rick Perry knows this. And Rick Perry is Bob Perry's bitch. That is why when Rick Perry says "Immigration" he really means "doing absolutely nothing to make my donor mad".

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