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
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