The Evening Brief: Texas Headlines for Jan. 28, 2013
New in The Texas Tribune
• Texans Voice Praise, Concerns Over Immigration Plan: "An immigration reform plan unveiled Monday by a bipartisan group of U.S. senators was greeted with mixed reviews by Texas lawmakers and stakeholders, with some groups hailing the effort as a positive leap forward and others chiding the plan’s emphasis on border security."
• Report: State Should Put Politics Aside, Expand Medicaid: "Texas' Republican leadership is adamant that Texas will not expand Medicaid, a major tenet of federal health reform. A report by the state's former deputy comptroller and former chief revenue estimator suggests that would ...
Comments (8)
Debbie Mason via Texas Tribune on Facebook
That is what they all say. I am so tired of the GOP/TP we have got to vote them out come 2014/2016.
Alex Cornell via Texas Tribune on Facebook
You know what encourages illegal immigration? Free trade policies that cripple small businesses, depress wages, and discourage entrepreneurship in Mexico and Central America.
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What a dumb arse. Amnesty only applies retroactively. Lamar the Xenophobe's mental imagery of countless people invading our borders to get into the amnesty program is based on the thinking of a zero-IQ brain. Or his hoping that you the listener has an IQ of zero.
Cynthia L Spanhel via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I think it might encourage people to try to get here before the law changes, but from what I read, it is much more difficult to enter illegally than in the past. Agree with Jim.
Scott Chase via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The last refuge of a failed argument is to use the word amnesty.
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Usually the deadline for amnesty is set for some date that has already passed, so there won't be a giant rush of influx before any future deadline.
In 1986, when Reagan supported and got an amnesty bill passed (yes you read that right, RONALD freakin' REAGAN) the amnesty was for people who can prove they've entered US prior to January 1, 1982, and have stayed here without legal issues, presumably have built a life, a family, and have been already contributing to the country through payroll taxes, sales taxes, tuition, etc.
So, Lamar, nope: amnesty is not for freeloaders. Only a xenophobe like you and your ilk would resort to that argument.
Michael Giberson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I thought the GOP supported hard work, opportunity, and freedom.
Michael Giberson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
And don't Christians have this "love thy neighbor" concept? I don't get what principle GOPers use to want to block people from pursuing their own bit of the American dream.