Immigrants, legal or otherwise, come to Texas to "put a roof over their heads" and Texas has a responsibility to provide them education and health care once they are here, Republican gubernatorial candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn told a conservative GOP group today.Now surely she isn't corrupt enough to put their interests ahead of America's interests, is she?
In a week when the [Democrat] governors of Arizona and New Mexico declared states of emergency for counties along their border with Mexico, citing the "ravages and terror" caused by illegal immigration, Strayhorn took a conciliatory tone on the same issue. But she also said the state needs help from the federal government...
...[Some political science professor who was in the reporter's rolodex] also theorized that Strayhorn, in search for campaign dollars, is unwilling to take a close-the-border stance and alienate large homebuilders and highway construction companies who use immigrant labor and contribute heavily in Republican politics...
Immigration2005b · Wed, 08/17/2005 - 11:44 · Importance: 1
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I thought it was supposed to be that they came here just to work? Now it turns out that they also sleep and need a roof, not just a tent? At least we have her assurance that the roof will not be that of welfare projects as yet unbuilt, or do we? Texas will say: send me your homeless, we can accomodate as many as you might send, and the taxpayer will not complain?
Posted by: John S Bolton at Aug 18, 2005 4:32 AM