I think Texas energy industry has paid for the endless benefits for illegals. BTW - what is the racial composition of the prison population in Texas?
Maybe.
But being in the oil business, our taxes generally don’t go for hospitals/schools — those are property tax driven. So I don’t think the oil helps us.
My drilling hands are overwhelmingly Hispanic (legal, or at least with good fake ID), and overwhelmingly great workers.
Blue colar whites can’t pass the drug tests.
I have no idea what the prison populations are, nor is it relevant to my point.