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--- ...provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization...
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. ---

I am sorry, but where did it say build a disgusting wall in my State of Texas and to put Federal Troops in my State of Texas? It didn't!

"To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization... "

Gee, we already have laws for that. Why don't you go whine to your Representatives for NOT ENFORCING THE CURRENT LAWS!

Keep the Federal Government out of Texas! Got it!

If you are inclined to travel, you may want to head about 800 miles west of El Paso to California. Like Texas, California is a border state with a diverse economy and a wide range of climate, scenery, and culture. California used to be moderate to conservative politically, as Texas is now. Out of its political system came a long series of prominent Republicans, many of them conservative: William Knowland, Earl Warren, Richard Nixon, S.I. Hayakawa, George Murphy, Ronald Reagan.

All of that is long gone. The state has a RINO governor, a liberal Democrat dominated legislature, and a Congressional delegation that is lopsidedly Democratic. What tipped California politics to the left was the enfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of people through the 1986 amnesty. As these new citizens and their children began to vote, moderate to conservative Republicans like Pete Wilson and Bob Dornan were voted out of office, to be replaced by the likes of Grey Davis and Loretta Sanchez. In the last two Presidential elections, the GOP virtually conceded California to the Democrats, rightly assuming the state was a lost cause.

It is foolish to imagine that Texas will be exempt from a similar political transformation should the illegals be allowed a path to citizenship. Signs of a like transformation are in evidence. Dallas County, a Republican stronghold since the 1960s, is shifting to the Democratic column, as evidenced by the recent election of a Democratic Hispanic lesbian as sheriff. Harris County is on a similar path. Should newly added Democratic voters who were formerly illegal aliens, what happened to California will happen to Texas. Should Texas, along with the other Southwestern states, swing to the Democratic column as the result of the illegals becoming citizens, the GOP will return to the minority status it had for over a half century and political conservatism will be a dead letter.

I don't care if the States, the Feds, or the Minutemen build the fence. It needs to be built, from Brownsville to San Diego.