I'm not sure if you mean the Texas FReeper rank and file or the population in general. I would think it is a big issue with 98% of Texas FReepers. As for the rest of Texas? Well, the media doesn't help much. A lot of local TV tape was shot at our FReep at the LULAC convention and even with great video bites like the one below, not one second of it was aired.
Oh, I may be able to help with that Jim. Here are a few post from some Texans regarding this immigration issue.
Why no! Nothing like that could happen to the great "Republic of Texas". We've got the Alamo. Why, our motto is "Don't Mess With Texas". We print it on T-shirts and refridgerator magnets and everything. We are the biggest braggarts and chest beaters in the nation. You don't know what you are talking about.
Illegal Mexicans aren't taken over Texas. Texas is conquering Mexico. yeah, that's it. That's the ticket. we will just keep telling ourselves that. That way we won't have our overblown pride hurt. Yeah! Thats it.
570 posted on 3/13/02 9:38 PM Pacific by southern rock [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 564 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
____________________________________________________________ So the millions of illegals in the state of Texas don't bother you huh?
Hey Joe, here is one Texan that is bothered by the millions of illegals in Texas. We're flooded up to our necks in illegals in this part of Texas, and I've hadenuf! Deport them all now, and throw in the illegal alien luvin' Texans as well if they love them so very much.
70 posted on 3/21/02 11:43 PM Pacific by Eddie Haskell [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
____________________________________________________________ I live in Houston - I SEE that the Mexicans have no intention of adopting American culture. They live, work and breed Mexico.
(no, not all of them - but a majority)
88 posted on 5/31/02 8:11 AM Pacific by Flyer
______________________________________________________ "Some 1,800 colonias, or shantytowns that developed without services like water or sewers, have emerged along the Texas-Mexico border."
These colonias are mostly populated by illegal aliens that shouldn't even be here in the first place!
Hell, you can drive around the city limits of Austin, Texas and find Messcuns living just like they did in Messco. A trashed out trailer home surrounded by a mini junk yard: Old rusted out cars, old refrigerators, old stoves, and misc. piles of garbage.
We could dump all of the money in the State Treasury into fixing up the colonias, and they'd have 'em trashed out again within a year! This is something that is ingrained in the culture, and throwing money at the problem won't change a thing.
16 posted on 6/7/02 9:19 AM Pacific by Destructor
Oh, and I have more from just about every single state in this country. Let me know if you would like to see more. Thanks for the great thread.
I've got family and friends in Texas -- not political junkies, but conservatives, and more importantly, voters. They're disgusted with Bush's immigration policies; particularly 245(i).
I was pretty surprised myself.
After 9/11, I'm not surprised. I think the average American was fatalistic about immigration before that, but the stories of corruption, malaise and diplomatic manipulation within the immigration system since then have made immigration, and our national insecurity, a major concern -- but not to Bush, which is painfully obvious. How he can fight a war on terror, while allowing the terrorist population to be replaced on a daily basis, is a bizarre contradiction in terms. Sure, he doesn't have much control, given the makeup of the Senate -- but keeping his mouth shut on 245(i), and at least making some token committment to controlling runaway immigration, would go a long way with potential Republican ship-jumpers. In this and other respects, he doesn't seem capable of adapting to changing circumstances -- i.e., the mood of the American people -- and adaptation has historically proved to be the province of survivors.
As far as the poll goes, I choose 1,2 and 8. The jury's still out on 3 and 5.
No, I won't vote for a Demoncrat, and no, there's no conservative on the horizon who has a chance of keeping the jackals (in both parties) at bay. Lately, I keep thinking of Rush's chant when Clinton was first elected: "America held hostage." Maybe now, it should be changed to "Conservatives held hostage."