The federal government is just absolutely failing. We either have an incredibly inept administration, or they're in on this somehow or another. I mean I hate to be conspiratorial, but I mean how do you move that many people from Central America across Mexico and then into the United States without there being a fairly coordinated effort?
Gov. Perry is absolutely right about a "fairly coordinated effort," which overlaps with other coordinated efforts smuggling drugs, guns, and sex slaves. Asked on ABC's This Week about the President following the 2008 law against sex trafficking, Gov. Perry ducked the question entirely, saying, when pressed:
What has to be addressed is the security of the border. You know that. I know that. The president of the United States knows that. I don't believe he particularly cares whether or not the border of the United States is -- is secure.
Interviewer Martha Raddatz let this blatant political lie pass unchallenged. She didn't ask Gov. Perry to explain why Pres. Obama is referred to as the deporter-in-chief, since his administration has deported record numbers of people. This administration has also detained record numbers of people crossing the border. This administration has record numbers of officers patrolling the border, and even shooting people across the border.
Gov. Perry says he has requested 1,000 National Guard soldiers for border patrol. He was not asked why he hasn't used his own authority as governor to call up the National Guard. Perry claimed, somewhat unclearly, that he had been asking the administration for help since 2010, without a response. He said, " I have to believe that when you do not respond in any way, that you are either inept, or you have some ulterior motive of which you are functioning from." Again he went unchallenged, as the segment ran out of time.
Is the Rio Grande Valley comparable Katrina to as a racial event?
After meeting with Gov. Perry in Texas on July 9, President Obama spoke affably to reporters, saying , "there's nothing the governor indicated he'd like to see that I have a philosophical objection to," including the 1,000 National Guard troops, But the President's emphasis was leaning, instead, on the Texas Congressional delegation to support his $3.7 billion emergency appropriation request. In Congress, House Republicans have reportedly hardened in opposition to the $3,7 billion bill, leaving the party in the position of simultaneously demanding that the border be secured and refusing to spend more money on securing the border.
For his part, Gov. Perry followed up on the meeting without noting any agreement with the President on anything. He did say that the President's refusal to visit the Rio Grande Valley was "no different" from Pres. Bush's response to Katrina. In response to Perry's jibe, a White House representative offered patent nonsense, but in complete sentences:
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