TribLive: Patterson on Immigration Reform
At Thursday's TribLive conversation, Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson discussed the GOP's challenge in attracting Latino voters and his support for a guest worker program.
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John Johnson
This guy should be the Repub nominee for Gov, Lt Gov or U.S. Senator, I don't care which. He is better than the rest. A straight talker. Good ideas.
Rudy Gonzales
President Obama has done well without the help of the last and current Congress, he may as well git done his way. They are not going to help. It's some wonder why Texas' representation in Washington have gone mute on immigration. TEA-questraitors are astonished that the economy has started to come back slowly and will use sequestration to further slow the economy. This is yet another method of their madness to shut down the presidency, hold the president back and control Obama. They will vote down legislation, fail to confirm Obama's cabinet members and rail against the Health Care Act which passed the Supreme Court. The vociferous rhetoric belted out during the primary has gone viral in some areas along the border and the scarlet (L) for losers has been tattooed on their foreheads for many years to come. Border security has been doubled and tripled in some instances, but serious negotiations with TEA-questraitors has fallen mute in Texas. The TEA-Republican pronouncements that have been made over 70 years by Republican's who have morphed into TEA-types has radically change the perception of Mexican-Americans and American-Mexicans. Congress has not been conducive to fixing the problem which has been around since 1942. The "Bracero Program" which was in place from 1942 until 1964, provides the basis for the situation currently being discussed. Ronald Reagan signed a law in 1986 which failed to fully carry out the requirements. Hurdles and hoops, including fines, back taxes, years of waiting and learning English have been proposed. Paying back taxes is a no-brainer since that one issue alone will shut down this process. Imposing workplace requirements to shut down immigrant workers will not work as many will do menial labor and stay for their families. So many of the immigrants have been drawn to the Democratic party for their inclusiveness. And when Sequest-traitors continue their comments like "illegal immigrants" rather than use "undocumented workers" they feed the both ways on immigration reform. We well know the truth of the concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people and the concentration of power in stricter, less compassionate hands. "Sweep your state Capital CLEAN....in 2014" "Sweep the House CLEAN....in 2014" "Sweep the Senate CLEAN....in 2014"