Texas repugnants EXPECT federal help with border security to keep brown people out but...

[ChisolmTrailDem]

...the federal government can keep their goddamned healthcare funding.

This applies to Arizona, too, and any other red state/county along the U.S./Mexico border.

[alsame]

1. I thought

Perry wanted to secede.

[atreides1]

2. He also wants the Federal Government to pay the bill

Perry as governor can activate the Texas National Guard and deploy them to the border...but then Texas would be footing the bill for that deployment.

And Perry and his Republican buddies don't want to pay for a deployment that will be nothing more then a glorified camping trip!

[NM_Birder]

3. It's the responsibility of the Federal Government to secure the borders.

The Federal government is NOT securing the borders, the Federal government is allowing the border to be a free for all, where god knows who, is bringing god knows what into the US.

Border security has nothing to do with the ACA, we as a nation EXPECT the borders to be secure, border security IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. Individual states are not allowed to enforce border security, IT IS A FEDERAL RESPONSIBILITY.

Regardless of color, as an American you too should EXPECT THE BORDERS TO BE SECURE.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

4. Sorry, I don't believe in rejecting refugees. nt

[NM_Birder]

6. do you believe the federal government should handle

refugees of foreign land ?

[malaise]

10. Send that question to George Bush

The children have to have a hearing based on the bill he signed in 2008.

[NM_Birder]

11. lol .... and that "hearing" would be conducted by ....?

or am I spoiling the 'WE HATE TEXAS" thread ?

[GeorgeGist]

5. You mean those thousands of children being apprehended ...

by the Border Patrol are Americans caught up in the free for all?

[librechik]

7. well, yes, if you subscribe to the old fashioned belief that all men are brothers

and that "America is a big place with a north, a central and a south, all Americans.

But some folks just want to draw a sharp line between "us" and Them."

And children fleeing the march of bloody death on their streets? It's not me that calls then refugees. It's US law.

[librechik]

8. borders? Ask a Native American about secure borders.

Then ask yourself if you should go somewhere else to follow your logic. Are you Native American? or rare you the descendant of illegals?

[NM_Birder]

12. I am decended from Clovis Man, so the native americans

should respect my borders.

[malaise]

9. Brewer took the health care money

so it does not apply to them