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But such was the playing field Monday as President Barack Obama came to Texas for a whirlwind of fundraisers in venues as large as the University of Texas' Gregory Gym and as small as a home in Highland Park.
It is always proper for a governor to welcome a president, even when they are of opposing parties. In this case, especially because of that difference. Rick Perry scored points for graciousness, even excessive enthusiasm, according to those who wondered about his decision to clap as Obama descended from Air Force One. The governor told me yesterday that he would have expected criticism for surliness had he not.
Maybe. But what mattered most in the opportunity for a few seconds of interface with the president was the chance to deliver a four-page letter urging additional National Guard troops for the Texas border.
The White House recently announced 1,200 new troops for border duty, but Texas' share of 286 along our 1,200-mile border is "clearly insufficient," Perry wrote, asking for a thousand more.
But the Perry letter is about the threat of international drug cartels and transnational gangs, which are not the main immigration concerns of most Texans or most Americans. The violence and crime from drug-runners and murder squads are alarming, but not as disturbing to most of us as the infinitely broader problem of the illegal immigrants who stream across our border in search of American jobs and welfare.
The Obama administration will never care about stopping that tide......
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