AUSTIN -- All three republican candidates have taken hard line stands on the border, but at least one is trying to walk a very fine line.
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison's campaign was the first to roll out a television ad aimed exclusively at border issues and illegal immigration.
Gov. Rick Perry’s re-election campaign followed close behind with a similar message.
His ad featured a West Texas sheriff and video similar to what aired in the governor's border ad from 2006.
While Perry and Hutchison are getting their border message out, Debra Medina is getting out a very different message, in a very different way.
Medina talks directly to Spanish-speaking voters in the minute-long ad which aired in the Rio Grande Valley, according to a campaign spokeswoman
In a recent debate, however, she took a hard-line on illegal immigration.
"All of Texas understands the devastation to our economy, to our schools and to our health care system,” she said at the Belo debate.
Ray Lopez echoed what many Hispanic voters in Austin told KVUE.
"It’s really contradictory,” he said. "You really have to pick a side, if you're on the fence, you'll just get a little bit of this side and a little bit of that side, you've really got to be strong in what you believe or not."
