[citizen]

---"He believes what he believes"---

You know, I think you're right: Bush governed TX for six years or so. So he's seen the situation up close from an executive perspective. That's why I have reservations about the President on this issue.

I read an article five or six years ago, wish I had saved it, about the effects of Mexican immigration on the fabric of life in Texas, the financial cost, the political trends, etc. There is a certain term (I can't remember it) that historically refers to the strip of Texas counties bordering Mexico. Dirt poor counties, almost all Mexican in population.

The thing is, according to the article, that strip of border counties is now (5 years ago) two and three counties deep into Texas.

Couple that scenario with the Texas "Robin Hood" programs whereby monies are extracted from affluent counties and sent to the poor southern counties for school, medical, infrastructure needs & social programs and, well, what is Bush thinking on this issue? He has surely seen first hand this expansion of a blighted region resulting from an unchecked flow of poor, uneducated immigrants, yet, if we are to believe his words, is in favor of greasing the skids for even a higher level of immigration.

I call it the willful importation of poverty and can't see any way to look at it as anything else. Though I have tried for I truly like the President except for this issue, the excessive spending and his failure to fight tenaciously for his Circuit judge nominations.

[Cold Heat]

Though I have tried for I truly like the President except for this issue, the excessive spending and his failure to fight tenaciously for his Circuit judge nominations.

We are in agreement on this.

I think he got the message as the State of the Union Speech indicated.

He did not promise the usual bunch of candy.