Meghashyam Mali
The Hill
September 4, 2011
Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) repeated his opposition to a controversial proposal to build a fence along the U.S.-Mexican border while campaigning in New Hampshire.
“No, I don’t support a fence on the border,” Perry said reports the Associated Press.
“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,” he added.
The Texas governor instead proposed using what he termed “strategic fencing” and National Guard troops to control migration and drug trafficking along the border.
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This one issue is enough to NOT vote for him!
Fences are stupid. Open borders? Well nothing ‘one sided’ is open. Let Mexico open its borders, let the world open its borders all together and at the same time. Let Mexico take in as much as it lets out…like taking in a large part of suffering Africans…Nigerians without complaint. A good way to judge something being right or wrong…if there is a concern about right and wrong and not just might equals right…is it being applied equally….is it a universal maxim…