There is a very short list of people who are behind this. NALEO and LULAC and MALDEF, of course, are on the other side, but the people who are making the difference right now -- and for the last 15 years -- in favor of unlimited illegal immigration are the 242 or so plutocratic contributors to Rick Perry's political campaigns for governor.
They include:
- The Tyson family (Tyson Foods), formerly led by the late Don Tyson,
- Billionaire investor Harold Simmons,
- Bob Perry, billionaire proprietor of Perry Homes,
- Walter Butt, greengrocer and principal (he's the B) in the H.E.B. food store chain,
- Chicken tycoon Bo Pilgrim (who has been temporarily kicked upstairs by his board for other corporate-governance shenanigans), who was once, about 10 years ago, videotaped from the gallery walking around the floor of the Texas senate while it was in session, handing out envelopes containing checks for $10,000 as a "thank-you" to certain senators for tangible legislative assistance, a very visible quid pro quo that should have landed them all in prison.
That's only a part of the top 5% or so of the list.
Butt and Perry led the delegation of superrich gargoyles around the Texas legislature during its special session last summer to reassure each and every solon who voted for the bill outlawing notorious "sanctuary city" policies (zero enforcement of immigration laws, zero reporting to federal ICE/INS of illegals arrested for crimes), that he or she would be primaried with vast fluxes of plutocratic "political contributions" if they voted to shut down the sanctuary policies. (Houston has one.)
The bill magically died like one of those Godfather scenes -- just a flock of men walking away from one guy, who's choking and strangling to death on his own blood in the middle of the public square, his throat cut in broad daylight, and "didn't nobody see nuttin' ".
The tide of public opinion runs strongly against temporizing with illegals, and has for some time, so these guys are confidently swimming upstream and having their way.
A Houston jury just sentenced an illegal alien who got drunk and killed a Houston motorcycle cop to 55 years in prison, and of course the LULAC/LaRaza chorus started up within the hour, saying the jury only gave out a harsh sentence because one of their own was killed. (Can you spell "racismo"?
Ping.
CORRUPTOCRATS!