News Radio 1200 WOAI San Antonio Texas
ess than an hour after the period began for filing bills for consideration in the 2011 Legislative session, State Rep. Debbie Riddle (R-Tomball), a leader of the newly muscular conservatives in the Legislature, filed an 'Arizona style' measure that would crack down on illegal immigration, 1200 WOAI news reports.
Riddle says her measure is a response to what she says is the escalating violence caused by Mexican and Latin American gangs in Texas.
"It is absolutely out of control with the gang related crime, which is going through the roof, so, yes, we are addressing this, and quite frankly, I am not worried about political correctness," Riddle told 1200 WOAI news.
The measure would be similar to Arizona's controversial SB 1070, in that it would require that local police work with federal immigration officials in determining the legal status of a person who is in their custody.
Is this one written by private prison companies too?
How does that change the fact the Arizona anti-illegal immigration is a great law? I do not give a rats ass if it was PETA,code Pink,American Communist party or Fred Phelps that wrote Arizona's anti-ILLEGAL immigration law, its still a great law.
Screaming bogus accusations of racism and bigotry didn't work so now you all have to resort to "The private prison company wrote Arizona's law". I do not think anyone who is against illegal immigration gives two ****s if the law was written by a private prison company.
The measure would be similar to Arizona's controversial SB 1070, in that it would require that local police work with federal immigration officials in determining the legal status of a person who is in their custody.
He tells 1200 WOAI news that every study which has been conducted on illegal immigration in Texas has found that stopping it would strangle the state's economy.
"All of the studies have calculated a net positive to our economy," Villarreal said. "Even considering any services which we provide to our own citizens that they may take advantage of."
Is this one written by private prison companies too?
You are a r****t by conclusion who would support the expansion of government, prisons, policing, at the expense of your government and people's coffers with no consideration for the consequences on legal immigrants of the color in question. You would never support such an expansion of policing and government for any other purpose with such a disregard for the rights of law abiding citizens in any other situation. Your approval of parties with conflict of interest of the people the law intends to represent fundamentally undermines any legitimacy to whatever government you envision.
What? One doesn't let illegal immigrants break the law with impunity because it might hurt the feelings of legal ones. Shall the TSA stop searching people at airport checkpoints because those who aren't guilty might get their feelings hurt? Be inconvenienced? Have to show identification? Their ticket to ride? Pullleeeze.
Bad analogies originating from a weak argument Puhleeze.
Firstly: I wasn't aware that they racially profiled at the airport or anywhere else.
Secondly: It infringes on the rights of legal immigrants, specifically in that you cannot deny it is to counter mexican illegal immigration, hence to be effective it would require profiling or you and everyone who supports the law would be essentially supporting a law that does nothing. But no, you support a law that will do something, infringe on the freedoms of legals, forcing them to carry documentation, and making them run the risk of detention and investigation if they did not have sufficient identification.
I dig it... its a law against 'illegals', 'were colorblind', 'its not about mexicans, and all those other ones that look the same' its an innocent law that cannot be effective without racial profiling! But honestly, we wont profile!
Jesús Cristo, Gawd.
The most common example of police racial profiling is "DWB", otherwise known as "driving while black". This refers to the practice of police targeting African Americans for traffic stops because they believe that African Americans are more likely to be engaged in criminal activity. While racial profiling is illegal, a 1996 Supreme Court decision allows police to stop motorists and search their vehicles if they believe trafficking illegal drugs or weapons.
it could be done without racial profiling if they went to every business and checked EVERYONE working to make sure they were there legally. and if any business was found habitually hiring illegals then pull their license to opperate. go after the businesses illegally hiring these people.Bad analogies originating from a weak argument Puhleeze.
Firstly: I wasn't aware that they racially profiled at the airport or anywhere else.
Secondly: It infringes on the rights of legal immigrants, specifically in that you cannot deny it is to counter mexican illegal immigration, hence to be effective it would require profiling or you and everyone who supports the law would be essentially supporting a law that does nothing. But no, you support a law that will do something, infringe on the freedoms of legals, forcing them to carry documentation, and making them run the risk of detention and investigation if they did not have sufficient identification.
I dig it... its a law against 'illegals', 'were colorblind', 'its not about mexicans, and all those other ones that look the same' its an innocent law that cannot be effective without racial profiling! But honestly, we wont profile!
Jesús Cristo, Gawd.
I always thought only smart Texans leave Texas...so if you send them all back, the IQ of the state might just get a bit higher. It will take a bunch of them tho, to counter the effect of Bush moving back to TexasI support deporting Texans back to Texas where they belong!
-- Giant's fan
Okay, let's let Texas deport all the cheap labor they want. Then they can cry because all of their businesses have left the state. Let's kick them out of Florida, too. Then the price of orange juice can triple. Where's the upside to this?
The Seattle Times: Local News: Low-paid illegal work force has little impact on prices
More than 7 million illegal immigrants work in the United States. They build houses, pick crops, slaughter cattle, stitch clothes, mow lawns, clean hotel rooms, cook restaurant meals and wash the dishes that come back.
You might assume that the plentiful supply of low-wage illegal workers would translate into significantly lower prices for the goods and services they produce. In fact, their impact on consumer prices — call it the "illegal-worker discount" — is surprisingly small.
The bag of Washington state apples you bought last weekend? Probably a few cents cheaper than it otherwise would have been, economists estimate. That steak dinner at a downtown restaurant? Maybe a buck off. Your new house in Subdivision Estates? Hard to say, but perhaps a few thousand dollars less expensive.
The underlying reason, economists say, is that for most goods the labor — whether legal or illegal, native- or foreign-born — represents only a sliver of the retail price.
Consider those apples — Washington's signature contribution to the American food basket.
At a local QFC, Red Delicious apples go for about 99 cents a pound. Of that, only about 7 cents represents the cost of labor, said Tom Schotzko, a recently retired extension economist at Washington State University. The rest represents the grower's other expenses, warehousing and shipping fees, and the retailer's markup.
And that's for one of the most labor-intensive crops in the state: It takes 150 to 190 hours of labor to grow and harvest an acre of apples, Schotzko said, compared to four hours for an acre of potatoes and 1 ½ hours for an acre of wheat.
Is this one written by private prison companies too?
Who cares who writes it? Besides if they are adopting Az. law, not much writing to do.
If I'm not mistaken 5 Texans were killed last week by drug cartel. Something needs to be done. Obama is refusing to even send the promised border patrol. States are going to have to take care of the problem themselves. This administration has deserted them.
Only this administration?
With the unemployment what it is, I think Texas can import workers from other states if needed.Okay, let's let Texas deport all the cheap labor they want. Then they can cry because all of their businesses have left the state. Let's kick them out of Florida, too. Then the price of orange juice can triple. Where's the upside to this?
Only this administration?
With the unemployment what it is, I think Texas can import workers from other states if needed.
I don't think businesses will be leaving anytime soon. In fact, the opposite.California vs. Texas: The Verdict is In (How to ruin your State and move to TX)
And this for Utah Bill who thinks Texans are stupid. If they are, they are not the stupidest.:2wave:
These judgments are not based on drive-by sociology. According to a report issued earlier this year by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., Texas students "are, on average, one to two years of learning ahead of California students of the same age," even though per-pupil expenditures on public school students are 12% higher in California. The details of the Census Bureau data show that Texas not only spends its citizens' dollars more effectively than California but emphasizes priorities that are more broadly beneficial. Per capita spending on transportation was 5.9% lower in California, and highway expenditures in particular were 9.5% lower, a discovery both plausible and infuriating to any Los Angeles commuter losing the will to live while sitting in yet another freeway traffic jam.
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