Perry will stand with Brewer and pass on border governors meeting

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The governors of Texas and Arizona will not be attending when New Mexico hosts a meeting of U.S. and Mexican border governors in September. The conference was originally planned to take place in Arizona, but Gov. Jan Brewer cancelled it after the Mexican governors said they would boycott the meeting in protest of Arizona's new immigration law.

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democrat, provided the new venue for the conference after the Mexicans announced that they intended to boycott the meeting and Brewer scratched it.

Now the governors of all six Mexican border states say they will attend, but Governors Brewer and Perry won't be there:

"It was Arizona's turn to host this, and [Gov. Perry] respected their decision to cancel it. He still intends to have a working relationship with all of the border governors," Perry spokeswoman Katherine Cesinger said.

Perry has the endorsement of his former colleage Sarah Palin, and the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate has actively supported Brewer in her defense of the Arizona law.

h/t: Eric Dondero

- JP