Perry playing with scare tactics
April 28, 2007
AUSTIN — With the Texas House poised to consider a border security bill and state budget writers deciding how much to spend, Gov. Rick Perry told a Pittsburgh newspaper some border-crossers with al-Qaida ties have been apprehended.”The information that we have is that there have been individuals who have crossed, and some that have been apprehended, that have ties back to the al-Qaida network,” Perry told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on a trip to the city to speak at a Boy Scout dinner.
My goodness, what a nasty scare tactic. Shouldn’t Rick Perry know better? Getting money or support at any cost shouldn’t be an option.
The facts are that there have been illegal entries of people of Middle Eastern descent, none have been labeled al-Qaida, and there is chatter that the Mexican border is easy to gain entry through and that the Canadian border is easier. Let us not pretend or infer that any of the 9/11 terrorists came into this country illegally. They all came into the United States by legal means, they didn’t sneak over the border in the middle of the night, they came in through customs with legitimate visa’s.
GOP Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said only that he had heard of illegal entries by people from the Middle East, but the individuals aren’t labeled as terrorists.
I grew up about 30 miles from where Timothy McVeigh grew up, by Perry’s yardstick I must be a terrorist too.
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