Immigration hot ticket in Texas and other immigration headlines

The Texas legislature has seen over 35 bills relating to immigration this year. One member quoted here, in the Dallas Morning News, hits close to the mark, I think:

"We need to be focused on what is absolutely appropriate for our state and on real problems, rather than divisive issues," said Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio. "I want to be worried about the guy that's trying to sell my daughter drugs, not the lady that wants to clean my daughter's house. There's a big difference."

Other headlines this morning:

Helping workers in hard times NYT
Undocumented immigrants make up only about one-twentieth of the work force but are overwhelmingly represented in the most dangerous, dirty and low-paying jobs. Driving out every undocumented worker, a temptation in hard times, clears the way for laid-off Americans to pick lettuce, wash dishes and cars, and wait all morning outside Home Depot for a contractor to drive up.

Obma's pork barrel The Scotsman
Even the temporary boost that such ploys as spending $5.5bn on the "greening" of federal buildings may give the construction industry have been blunted, at least in the Senate bill, by omitting the E-Verify mandate that was in the House bill. This would allow an estimated 300,000 illegal aliens to parasite on construction jobs; they are even awarded tax breaks in another part of the package.

To call this spendthrifts' wish list a "stimulus" is an insult to America's intelligence. Instead, it is a hotch-potch of politically correct liberal obsessions:


Stimulus to give jobs to illegal aliens Canada Free Press