Cruz and Perry Misled on Border Issues and Immigration.

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http://www.tribtalk.org/2014/08/21/cruzs-big-lie-about-the-border/

While Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz compete for the conservative tough talker award, they share something in common other than their apparent ambitions to be the 45th president — they’re among the leading proponents of the Big Lie about immigration and border security.

The Big Lie is a political technique in which misrepresentations, omissions and sometimes outright falsities are repeated so many times that they become conventional wisdom.

In a recent Texas Tribune opinion piece, for instance, Cruz weaves a tapestry of small lies and half-truths into a full-cloth fabrication about immigration and the border.

[Thinkingabout]

1. It doesn't seem like either Cruz or Perry would ever be truthful on immigration or

Border control. When Perry became governor after Bush went to the WH, Bush said his vehicle anch friends needed access to the river to water their herds so putting up a fence would prevent access to the river. Bush also wanted his friends to have access to cheap labor. Now Perry is attempting to show he is tough on border security to perhaps get ten people to listen to him. He is also spending from $5-$12 million a month to put the national guard on the border which may be more about diverting attention away from his indictments. Cruz, I can't tell if he is spinning or preaching, neither sounds very good coming from him. I would like to see how he plans to return the $25 million back to the treasury he wasted on a useless shutdown of the government.

[TexasTowelie]

3. That's $25 billion, not $25 million.

I just want to set the record straight.

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4. Sorry, dont know if i can type that high.

[Louisiana1976]

2. Ted Cruz should be deported to Canada. Really. He's against Obama's "Dreamers," against letting in

the Central American refugees, and against amnesty. It would be poetic justice if he were repatriated to our neighbor to the north.

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5. Heard they dont want him.

[Vogon_Glory]

6. I don't blame blame them. N/t