We don’t normally see them contradict their Republican guests like this!
ABC News host Martha Raddatz on Sunday cut off Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) after he spent four minutes defending a conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was plotting to fill up the United States with undocumented immigrants.
Speaking to Fox News last week, Perry had asserted that the president was responsible for the growing crisis of women and children immigrants coming across the border.
“We either have an incredibly inept administration, or they’re in on this somehow or another,” Perry opined. “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?”
During a Sunday interview on ABC News, host Martha Raddatz gave the Republican governor a chance to back away from his conspiracy theory.
“Governor, do you really believe there’s some sort of conspiracy to get people into the United States by the federal government, by the Obama administration?” Raddatz asked.
There is no such thing as a viable immigration bill. There is no solution to the problem of illegal immigration. Poor folks will always try to enter a rich country in any way that they can. Once here they’ll take any available job and be satisfied with whatever they get paid. Reagan tried to correct the problem with legislation and failed miserably. Clinton gave us NAFTA to try and stem the flow of unemployed migrants (build factories in Mexico and they won’t migrate). But we all know how NAFTA has screwed us. Immigration is a political issue for both the Republicans and Democrats who use it as a fund raising tool. The oligarchy(1%) loves cheap labor.
Perry’s eyeglasses prove that he’s super-smart and thoughtful, so I believe whatever he says.
Gov. Perry, you don’t get to call others inept anymore.