AP:
Perry says he’d stop drug trafficking, violence
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is defending his policy of allowing tuition assistance for illegal immigrants at state colleges and universities, saying the lack of a cohesive federal immigration policy forced his hand.
Perry tells CNBC in an interview that “we need to have an immigration policy that’s thoughtful.”
The Republican says that when he embraced the concept of tuition assistance in 2001 for illegal immigrants, he believed “it was in the best interest of our state to have these young people educated than kicking them to the curb.”
Perry also says that if elected president, he would solve the problem of drug trafficking, illegal immigration and violence along the southern border of the U.S. He declares that “we will stop the drug cartels and we will stop the illegal immigration.”
Oh, I get it now. His support for in-state tuition for the illegal alien children of illegal alien parents, his opposition to E-Verify, his dogged opposition to real physical border security, and his push for expensive multi-modal corridors (while the official TTC website was up, it showed a map of Texas and only Texas conjoined with Mexico, with the proposed TTC routes hooking up with important Mexican roads and highways), was all part of a secret Machiavellian plan to stop the drug trafficking and violence of Mexican gangs.
Now it’s all so clear to me. (Unless it isn’t.)
I wouldn’t take any of the statements coming out of this campaign seriously. They’re just saying whatever their advisers tell them to say in order to get elected. I doubt that these statements, for better or worse, have anything to do with what they’ll actually do once in office.
Even if a politician tells me everything I want to hear, I refuse to play their game. I’m not listening any more.
It’s like I’ve been saying in this space for a long time, the lesson that was pounded into my head from a little boy – Words are cheaper than dirt, actions have consequences.