--- title: Obama Heads for his Own Alamo description: Governor Rick Perry has been sharply critical of the administration's immigration policy and declined to meet the president on arrival canonical: https://time.com/2967925/obamas-texas-trip-sets-stage-for-immigration-alamo/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-09T00:25:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-01T08:57:45.671Z article:section: Politics og:title: Obama Heads for his Own Alamo og:description: Governor Rick Perry has been sharply critical of the administration's immigration policy and declined to meet the president on arrival og:url: https://time.com/2967925/obamas-texas-trip-sets-stage-for-immigration-alamo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf443b4e7811d0b3c/69869af6e53aba14c74d37dc/2014-07-08t204455z_1468202568_gm1ea790.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: Obama waves from Air Force One as he departs Joint Base Andrews in Washington en route to Denver og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Obama Heads for his Own Alamo twitter:description: Governor Rick Perry has been sharply critical of the administration's immigration policy and declined to meet the president on arrival twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf443b4e7811d0b3c/69869af6e53aba14c74d37dc/2014-07-08t204455z_1468202568_gm1ea790.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Obama's Texas Trip Sets Stage for Immigration Alamo > Sponsored content. 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Obama & Texas governor to discuss immigration, while Congress is divided on emergency immigration aid_  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Jul 9, 2014 12:25 AM UTC  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Jul 9, 2014 12:25 AM UTC President Barack Obama travels to Texas Wednesday to raise money for Democratic campaigns in Dallas and Austin, speak about the economy, and meet with community leaders for a discussion about the [wave](http://time.com/2941422/barack-obama-immigration-reform-border-deportations/) of migrants, many of them children, flooding the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months. Texas Governor Rick Perry will meet with the President during his visit, but declined an offer to welcome Obama to Texas by meeting him at the airport. “I appreciate the offer to greet you at Austin-Bergstrom Airport,” Perry wrote in a letter [seen](http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/perry-to-obama-no-totarmac-handshake-yes-to-though/ngbBt/) by the Austin-American _Statesman_, “but a quick handshake on the tarmac will not allow for a thoughtful discussion regarding the humanitarian and national security crises enveloping the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. I would instead offer to meet with you at any time during your visit to Texas for a substantive meeting to discuss this critical issue. With the appropriate notice, I am willing to change my schedule to facilitate this request.” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Tuesday that the President will meet with border officials on his visit to Texas but not tour the border itself, something Governor Perry has repeatedly invited him to do. ## Transcript With the ink barely dry on the President's nearly 4 billion dollar plan, the hope of flood of undocumented immigrants flowing across the U. S. border, prominent republicans in congress are already saying no deal. They've asked the congress for a blank check, an awful lot of money that comes to tens of thousands of dollars for each one of these children. Nearly half of the $ 3. 7 billion White House proposal is devoted to caring for the unaccompanied minors from Central America. The rest goes to detention and removal costs, more border patrols and surveillance, and immigration legal teams to speed up deportation proceedings. Administration officials say, GOP critics want to have it both ways. They don't get to acknowledge that this is a serious humanitarian problem. And then say offhand that they won't provide the support to make sure that we can deal with this problem. Part of the problem, existing U. S. laws that require border crossers to be returned quickly if they come from Mexico. Yet, the undocumented from Central America receive special legal protections. A distinction former President Bush signed into law to fight human trafficking. It is the protection that is required under U. S. law. But it has now escalated to the point of creating a migration emergency. Making the border crisis tougher to solve is the political brawl between the president and Texas governor Rick Perry, after an exchange of insults. I have to believe that when you do not respond in any way. That you are either inept, or you have some ulterior motive. The truth is, it's hard to take seriously Governor Perry's concerns. The two leaders will meet in Dallas, hundreds of miles from the border, aides say, the President won't be visiting. I hope the President will reconsider. 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