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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMartha Raddatz Schools Rick Perry On The Real Reasons For The Migrant Children Crisis
ABC Host Schools Rick Perry On The Real Reasons For The Migrant Children Crisishttp://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2014/07/06/3456735/rick-perry-children-asylum-raddatz/
Martha Raddatz, host of ABCs This Week, grilled Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) Sunday about the growing number of unaccompanied children coming to the United States from Latin America from Central America seeking asylum. When Perry insisted the issue is solely one of border security, Raddatz quickly debunked his talking points.
Perry blamed the influx of children on President Obama, complaining that there are not enough border patrol agents along the border between Texas and Mexico (despite agents monitoring every mile of the border every day). Raddatz pushed back, noting that the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 requires that those seeking refugee status from Central American countries receive due process:
RADDATZ: But, governor, this is about a law. This isnt necessarily about border patrol. This is about a law. They have to let these people into the country when theyre from non-contiguous nations, when theyre from Central America or South America, should that law be changed?
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Raddatz did not let Perry change the subject, asking him to focus on the 2008 law that was signed into law by George W. Bush, and suggesting that that has created a backlog in the courts that must be addressed first. But Perry continued to dodge the question, arguing that Obama simply did not care about keeping these children out. Raddatz again pushed back:
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Martha Raddatz Schools Rick Perry On The Real Reasons For The Migrant Children Crisis (Original Post)
cal04
Jul 2014
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rsmith6621
(6,942 posts)1. Saw The Interview.
.. I hope Perry doesnt go out and steal money from donors for another attempt at the White House. He is nothing but a TOOL.
Gothmog
(144,939 posts)2. Juanita Jean had some fun with Goodhair's latest act of stupidity
Juanita Jean could not pass this opportunity up http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/07/06/oh-yall-its-gotta-be-brain-freeze/
Rick Perry has to study-up to be dumb.
I swear on all that is holy that hes been taking America-lessons for the past two years so he can run for President and be two IQ points smarter than Sarah Palin.
It didnt work.
Dumb as a sack of hammers.Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) is not backing away from a conspiracy theory he recently floated about the Obama administration somehow coordinating the surge of immigrants coming over the border for some unknown reason.
Perry recently suggested on Fox News that the Obama administration might be in on this somehow and helping move immigrants over the border. Asked about that statement on Sunday, Perry didnt back away.
What? President Obama is going to use refugees from a Central America drug war to herd us all into underground bunker reeducation camps ruled by the New World Order in Roswell, New Mexico, with Janet Renos, the woman who shot Kennedy, black helicopters hovering overhead?
Well, crap Rick, everybody knows that. Just go ahead and say it.
And by the way, please make Rick quit torturing the English language. In an attempt not to end a sentence with a preposition, we get thisI 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, Perry said on ABCs This Week on Sunday.
Nice try, Dumbo, but you could have ended the sentence at the word motive.
Ill give somebody fifty dollars cash American money to go convince him that hes already been President and now its time to go to the ranch and paint pictures of himself in the bathtub.
I mean it.
Goodhair is a really stupid person