Perry: Obama ‘Doesn’t Particularly Care’ Whether Border Is Secure

Perry: Obama 'Doesn't Particularly Care' Whether Border Is Secure (RealClearPolitics)

MARTHA RADDATZ, ABC NEWS: Back to the law, the 2008 law that was signed into law by George Bush. Isn't this is a backlog in the courts? Doesn't that have to be addressed first?

GOV. RICK PERRY (R-TX): What has to be addressed is the security of the border. You know that. I know that. The president of the United States knows that. I don't believe he particularly cares whether or not the border of the United States is -- is secure.

And that's the reason there's been this lack of effort, this lack of focus, this lack of resources...

RADDATZ: He's telling people not to come.

PERRY: -- and...

RADDATZ: He's telling them in ads not to come into the United States, not to leave their homes.

PERRY: About -- about five years too late would be my response to that. The president has sent powerful messages time after time...

RADDATZ: You know, Governor...

PERRY: -- by his policies, by nuances, that it is OK to come to the United States and you can come across and you'll be accepted in open arms. That is the real issue.