Rick Perry may no longer be Texas’ governor, but he is still concerned with immigration.
The longest serving governor in Texas history — who has been indicted over his attempt to rein in the office of a prosecutor after her explosive behavior and abuse of police officers during a drunk-driving arrest became public — is amping up his public profile as he mulls another White House run. The latest issue? Immigration and border security.
“You have to secure the border,” Perry said in an interview with Newsmax TV that aired Wednesday morning. “The American people are not going to trust Washington, D.C., until you secure the border. This is something that we have to deal with in this country — and we can secure the border.”
According to Perry, “The porous nature of that southern border was something that the United States needs to be concerned about.”
Perry, 65, also revealed in the interview that he will announce whether or not he will seek the 2016 Republican presidential nomination in late May or “the first of June.”
Should Perry decide to run, he will have a lot of catch-up work to do. At 2.5 points, he polls ninth among a 12-person deep GOP field, according to a RealClearPolitics average of polls.
