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Rick Perry: no to full border fence; re-uses "ladder business" line like Janet Napolitano and Bill Richardson - 09/04/11
... supported "strategic fencing" and National Guard troops...
1. He's repeating himself: he made the same weak "ladder business" joke back in 2007, and both Janet Napolitano (quote) and Bill Richardson have made similar weak jokes.
2. Associated Press writer Steve Peoples says that Perry's quote above resulted in an "angry shout from at least one audience member". A useful idiot for Perry who was...
Newt Gingrich offers false choice, supports incremental amnesty, doesn't challenge CNN for misleading on immigration (GOP 6/13/11 debate) - 06/13/11
... the DHS and large numbers of National Guard to the border.
The relevant part of the debate is at [1] from this.
1. In the first paragraph at [1], John King engages in the deportations false choice fallacy. See the link for a longer description, but King implied that we're forced to choose between mass deportations and some form of amnesty. That's not the case: there are other alternatives, such...
Obama wants $500 million to send National Guard to secure the border (prelude to amnesty) - 05/25/10
... million in order to send up to 1200 National Guard troops to the border. Per an unnamed administration official (link):
"[The troops will] provide intelligence; surveillance and reconnaissance support; intelligence analysis; immediate support to counternarcotics enforcement; and training capacity until Customs and Border Patrol can recruit and train additional officers and agents to serve on the...
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