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Gov. Rick Perry Says Texas May Soon Take Steps to Secure the Border -- With or Without the Federal Government's Help
Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks to reporters following a fund-raising breakfast for Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, Thursday, May 29, 2014, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Gov. Rick Perry Says Texas May Soon Take Steps to Secure the Border -- With or Without the Federal Government's Help

"If there is a people and if there is a place that it can happen, it will be Texas."

Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) has been begging the federal government for years to secure America's southern border. Now, as America faces what some are calling an "invasion" of illegal aliens, Perry said the time may come that Texas is forced to secure its roughly 1,200 mile border with Mexico with or without the federal government's help.

"We've been able to shut down illegal activities in certain sectors with our different operations that we've had," Perry said on The Glenn Beck Program Thursday. "But I think there's a point in time where you say, 'You know what? This 1,200 mile border has to be secured.' And if there is a people and if there is a place that it can happen, it will be Texas."

Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks to reporters following a fund-raising breakfast for Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, Thursday, May 29, 2014, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks to reporters following a fund-raising breakfast for Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, Thursday, May 29, 2014, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Perry said that most have been focusing on the tens of thousands of unaccompanied children crossing into America when discussing the border crisis. And while he said what they are going through is a "tragedy," it is important to remember that the children only make up about 20 percent of all the illegals flooding America's borders.

"80 percent of those coming across, we don't know who they are," Perry said. "In Katy, Texas yesterday an individual was apprehended who had murdered an individual in Louisiana."

The also two discussed a 9-year-old girl who was recently molested by an illegal immigrant in Texas, and Perry said there have been roughly 3,000 murders by illegals in the past six years.

"That's unacceptable, and that's the reason that we have to secure that border," Perry said.

The governor said he and his team are "methodically, thoughtfully going through this process" of determining how to best secure the border, and "hoping against hope, frankly, that the federal government's going to be a partner in this."

Watch the complete interview below.

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