[normy]

It is a states right issue. Mississippi can jail and detain illegals at the expense of the Mississippi taxpayer all they want.

Texas has a 1,200 mile border with Mexico, almost half of the whole U.S. border. It's not Texas job to secure it but Perry has spent hundreds of millions of Texas tax dollars to do just that. I would love if Palin would have sent some of her states federal welfare down to Texas to help with security.

Once those illegals are here, states can't just round them up and deport them. They can turn them over to immigration, jail them or whatever but the Feds have to deport.

Texas has a problem because the Feds don't do their job and we have to foot much of the bill to secure your border (and mine) and Sarah Palin's and Michelle Bachman's while they get to sit thousands of miles away and snipe without even having the foggiest idea of what they are talking about.

[so_real]

"rounding them up and deporting them" is the red herring argument planted by the MSM. You don't need to do any of that. All that is required is "disincentivizing". Financially burden the industries that are making use of the illegals and expatriating American dollars and jobs. When the companies taking advantage of the illegals' labor no longer find financial gain in doing so, they will stop funding the crime. When the money dries up, the illegals leave on their own. No round-up required, and completely within the states' authority and capability. The question is ... does a crony capitalist out himself by refusing to support such a simple solution. I think so.

[LibLieSlayer]

That border needs to be secured... Who do the border patrol in Texas work for? Who runs the official border crossings? These illegals need to be stopped... it is bad for Texas and it is bad for America. None of the peripheral political issues matter as much as Sovereignty.

LLS

[CAluvdubya]

All you have to do is look at what the illegals have done to CA.....we're broke!

Much of our financial problems are all the freebies we pay to and for illiegals. They have shut down hospitals in San Diego and Los Angeles because those hospitals can't afford to keep treating people that call 911 for a cold (this is what they are told to do on the Mexican radio stations as once that ambulance is there, they are required to transport the patient to the hospital). That's how they get free medical care and I have to pay for it!

These illegals get food stamps and any other numerous benefits that we are trying to cut down for our own citizens, let alone those that come her illegally.

If Texas keeps on, they will be just as bankrupt as Cali!