Rick Perry Goes On CNN To Make Absurd Claims Associating Immigrants To Terrorists

Well, I guess if you are running for PRESIDENT, you gotta scare the people. FACTS BE DAMNED...

PS PERRY and TEXANS are paying for keeping middle eastern terrorists from coming over the border?? Really???


Watch: Rick Perry Goes On CNN To Make Absurd Claims Associating Immigrants To Terrorists

by: Omar Araiza
Tue Aug 05, 2014 at 10:00 AM CDT

Governor Rick Perry went on CNN's State of the Union this week to gain more media exposure regarding his recent political theatrical stunts on the border crisis and immigration.

During the interview, host Candy Crowley put Perry on the spot on his decision to send the National Guard down to the border, and how people are saying Perry is only doing so out of personal motives to run for president again in 2016.

"And, Governor, to those who say that you're calling up of the National Guard in Texas is a part of your road to become president and to run for president again, your response is?" asked Crowley.

The question gave Perry the perfect opportunity to come up with one of his most absurd claims yet: Linking Central American child refugees and other immigrants to terrorists from South Asia.


Transcript of video:

CROWLEY: And, Governor, to those who say that you're calling up of the National Guard in Texas is a part of your road to become president and to run for president again, your response is?

PERRY: I'm the governor of the state of Texas. My citizens' safety is what is foremost here. And it hasn't got anything to do with anything other than those numbers of individuals who are coming across the border.

And when you think about the idea that some of them are from countries that have substantial terrorist ties, whether it's Pakistan or Afghanistan or Syria, we are at historic record highs with individuals being apprehended from those countries.

We say it's time to secure the border. Hasn't got anything to do with anything, other than the American citizens expect Washington to respect the Constitution and secure the border, one of the things that's actually enumerated in the Constitution. We'd like for them to do their duty.

CROWLEY: Governor Rick Perry, as always, I thank you for joining us. Appreciate your time.

PERRY: Thank you, Candy. You're welcome.

Despite Crowley not having enough time left to fact-check Perry's absurd claims, according to PolitiFact, Perry's claims were just flat out wrong:

Perry said the United States is at "historic record highs" of individuals being apprehended on the border from countries with terrorist ties such as "Pakistan or Afghanistan or Syria."

The most recent data does not show record apprehensions of individuals from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria or any other designated terrorist countries, nor does it show an upward trend in apprehensions of individuals from those areas. Even if it did, many apprehensions of people from these areas happen at airports rather than land borders.

We rate Perry's claim Pants on Fire.


http://www.burntorangereport.com/

 

November 2012 House Committee on Homeland Security report…

U.S. Government officials who are directly responsible for our national security continue to affirm the vulnerability. In August 2007 former Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell stated that not only have terrorists used the Southwest border to enter the United States but that they will inevitably continue to do so as long as it is an available possibility. In a July 2012 hearing before the full U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano confirmed that terrorists have crossed the Southwest border with the intent to harm the American people. Additionally, the U.S. Border Patrol regularly apprehends aliens from the 35 “special interest countries” designated by our intelligence community as countries that could export individuals that could bring harm to our country in the way of terrorism.” From Fiscal Years 2006 to 2011, there were 1,918

 

I am MORE THAN AWARE OF THIS. But if you think for one GD second that that middle eastern JIHADISTS is what PERRY's 'GRANDSTANDING' is about you are POLITICALLY naive and or politically craven. PERRY inserted himself into THIS BOGUS national security debate. IT AIN'T HIS JOB!! And I have no problem with pointing it out and NEITHER DOES BURNT ORANGE who are citizens who are paying for this. If it was so damn dangerous, menacing, and national security was at stake, why didn't PERRY send troops 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 years ago? HE'S BEEN GOVERNOR FOR HOW LONG? He sends troops to the border the SAME WEEK he goes to Iowa?? GET REAL.

 

Perry is an incompetent fabricator of interesting stories, and if he does run in the primary will be trounced rather quickly....all one needs to do is ask him a question to destroy him.

 

Well,, 1,918 is a lot considering that we only catch a small percent of these friendly immigrant terrorists. That would mean as few a "10" potential terrorists per day and we know that the flow of people and drugs is way up with the BP occupied wiping butts and passing out candy to the CA kids.

I wonder if the Mexican drug gangs will fight with the terrorists when they spring into action? I'm guessing that they will go for the West Coast first because so few people there have guns and islamoites hate homos.

Isn't it crazy that the liberal horde loves muslims so much when it is the liberal life style that makes islamoite want to kill us all?

 

the right cares very little about verifiable facts these days

 

Amazing that people don't care about border security and scream bloody murder when someone actually does something.

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My post pretty much disproves the OP but thanks for the rant.

 

I'm sure that if a democrat governor like Jerry Brown pointed out that the country runs a grave risk from terrorists by leaving our borders so very vulnerable and open so as to let illegal immigrants through none of these leftist quislings would complain or bat an eye.
Of course a democrat governor would never say such a thing and expose how dangerous and suicidal the left wing mania for illegal immigration really is.

 

But he is sucking up air time again! There was a great line in The American President. I'm paraphrasing. This is a 'serious time for serious people and your 5 minutes are up'. We have to wade through Perry's '5 MORE MINUTES' (BEFORE HE IMPLODES)?? Republican CHAFF begats more REPUBLICAN CHAFF and the whole GD time the whole GD bunch of them are posturing, NOTHING IS GETTING DONE!!!

 

Thanks for pointing out the failure of the current Administration.

 

That is not his job even if it wasn't just about perry presidential politics??

 

Perry is a grandstander on the order of Pat Robertson....

 

Seeing how the Obama admin isn't doing it's job, why don't I hear any complaints about that?

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You should read some of my posts......

 

Until it happens of course.... Will he be a liar then or will it be like people saying Romney was a nut for pointing out how dangerous Russia was becoming, back in 08? Oh, and then it happened.

 

Where are the facts to show that Perry is lying? The so-called "PolitiFact " "pants-on-fire" site only shows stats through 2012. I wonder if they've figured out yet that this is 2014. I wonder if they've figured out yet that non-Mexican apprehensions at the border have gone up by 152% since 2012.

Here are the 2014 stats that PolitiFact did use:

Rick Perry correct that record number of immigrants not from Mexico are being apprehended at border

http://www.politifact.com/texas/sta...erry-correct-record-number-immigrants-not-me/

Kind of looks to me like you are lying about Perry, and that PolitiFact can't be trusted to use consistent measures from one statement to the next.

 

Politifact says Obama compromised on Securing the Borders.

Can you enlighten us, as to whom obama compromised with on border security?

Typically, a compromise means two opposing people make a deal that helps both people, but neither gets everything they want.

We know that President obama was one person in the compromise, who is the other, and what was compromised, besides our nations borders?

 

Wow, rage much?

Where is this faux rage when your beholden kenyan (or any other dem doofus) does the same (*)(*)(*)(*)?

You seem to willingly swallow BO whole, but rail at any other politician of the R persuasion.

Politics, as a whole is all about show, because 99% of it is BS and talk.

Instead of dumping on Perry (a mere state governor), why aren't you screeching at BO and Congress, the ones truly tasked with protecting our borders, and failing miserably at it.

 

Blame Bush, blame the Repubs...sigh...such a tiring leftist mantra.

Of course, continue your asinine blame game because we all know that BO and you dems OWNED the House, the Senate and the Presidency for 2 full years and STILL did absolutely jack (*)(*)(*)(*).

The only "chaff" are the do nothing dems and that miserable excuse we call "president".

 

[Judging from this board--MANY (not all) don't care about FACTS period. I've seen garbage from 'pick a period'--old, new, recent, very old, very very old, today--garbage. DEBUNKED, fact checked, google 'searched', dispelled, proofed and proved--GARBAGE. Up on this board it goes.

(Not to pick on this board--up on any board where a large number of RW respondents are parked!)

 

Evidently you pick your own opinion as facts. Your own OP has been debunked. You are entitled to your own opinions, not your own facts.

 

I repeat--the MOST obvious question within my 'rant'....

If it was so damn dangerous, menacing, and national security was at stake, why didn't PERRY send troops 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 years ago?

Answer the question!

 

Real reporting from sources that are not Obama prop-up propagandists say that there are many people from terrorist supporting nations crossing our southern border. That means that Perry is right and it also means we should be concerned.

 

Okay, SO LET'S USE JUST PERRY'S WORDS.. If we are APPREHENDING THEM, why does Perry need to send Texas National Guard?? Do these terrorists then get APPREHENDED twice?? Texas National Guard will 'catch' more people than the Border/Homeland Security types who are 'apprehending' them NOW??

Perry said the United States is at "historic record highs" of individuals being apprehended on the border from countries with terrorist ties such as "Pakistan or Afghanistan or Syria."

 

LOL, ring around the mulberry bush argument;

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/346591/southern-border-our-welcome-mat-terrorists#!