“The good news is that the Platform isn’t law. It is a list of those things we in the RPT believe. We do believe in “solutions,” not just complaints and criticisms. We will insist that our elected officials not - in any way, shape or form - promote “amnesty.””
But you know...they’re going to promote amnesty anyway.
Texas, for all its bragging, is one of the weak states when it comes to preventing an invasion from the south. The other is California. Yes, I’m comparing you to THAT state.
California lets in illegal aliens because the left-wing nuts want them for voters, and Texas lets in illegal aliens because business ‘conservatives’ want them as cheap, exploitable labor. There really isn’t much difference between the two - evil is as evil does.
AMEN!
Here’s the rest of our wish list:
http://texasgopvote.com/fix-immigration-practical-policy/rpt-2012-immigration-platform-texas-solution-004277
I was involved in the SubCommittee that wrote on Welfare Reform.
The stronger language failed by one vote in the whole Committee and the substitution of 2010 language failed by 2, if I remember correctly. The fact that the above language was included in the Platform (and read aloud in Committee and in the General Session) was probably the deciding factor.
Now, Satin Doll: Your whole post is so much excrement!
Texas is not weak or soft on illegal immigration. We have 1200 miles of the 2000 mile border with Mexico. We’ve been spending between $100 to $200 Million a year of Texas tax payer money on what should be Federally funded by all the States: border security and illegal alien criminals. The Feds built 11 detention centers in Texas for ICE, bring them to Texas and dump them here, sometimes even releasing them here when their Courts get too backed up. ICE also will release illegals at border towns which results in a revolving door of release and catch and release and catch.
Then, we are the State that sued to stop education of illegal aliens’ children - Tyler, Texas started the suit back in 1982, but Texas was strong in joining it.
Finally, our population has been used to crossing the border fairly freely to visit, shop and do business until the Feds let the border drug trade get to the point that people who have relatives close to the border don’t even cross anymore.
The problem is lack of Federal control of the border. It is not that Texans are “weak” or cowtow to businesses that hire.