Race and Immigration at The Texas Tribune Festival
We'll be liveblogging throughout the weekend from The Texas Tribune Festival's race and immigration track — which includes panels on cross-border cartel violence, interdependence between the U.S. and Mexico, the relationship between illegal immigration and criminal justice, and the economics of immigration reform.
Featured speakers include U.S. Reps. Henry Cuellar, Silvestre Reyes, Michael McCaul and Blake Farenthold; former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza; and former U.S. Census Bureau Director Steve Murdock.
Follow us here for updates from the University of Texas campus.
Comments (9)
Joel Wischkaemper
10:45 a.m. by Julian Aguilar
Foster on roles of the states in immigration enforcement: Says states’ outcry on “open border” is a mirage and driven more by groups like FAIR, Center for Immigration Studies, which use scare tactics.
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And of course, if you were asked to show and tell, you would be totally unable to do so.
Again, and again, and again, the bigotry of the pro illegal aliens is displayed without any regard to the sensibilities of the rest of America. You make very ugly statements, and you don't know what you are talking about. It is extremely offensive to call us racists when almost everyone know that illegal aliens are not ..a.. race: they are all the races of the world.
May I suggest to one and all that you read the sites?
http://www.fairus.org
http://www.cis.org.
tanya flores
YOUR ANCESTORS WERE ILLEGAL ONCE UPON TIME,,,,,THINK ABOUT THAT,,,,,THESE ILLEGAL ALIENS AS YOU CALL THEM HAVE VERY SENSITIVE REASONS TO COME HERE TO THIS COUNTRY AND FIND A GOOD LIFE.
IF YOU ARE CONCERN ABOUT CRIMINALS ,,,WELL THE GOOD ILLEGAL PERSONS COMING TO THIS COUNTRY HAS NO FAULT ABOUT THESE CRIMINALS.
COME ON BUDDY ,,,,,BE MORE HUMAN
AND STOP BE A NAZI
steve smith
When did we lose our common sense? Our Government, has allowed the invasion of 30 million criminals in direct violation of Article IV, Section IV of our Constitution. they force American tax payers to pay Billions to provide Welfare, Prison cells, Educate the invaders children, free medical care,massive document fraud, & are destroying our schools, hospitals, communities, culture while Robbing, Raping, Killing & Assaulting American Citizens WE ARE BEING INVADED! WAKE UP PEOPLE!
An education is a good thing.
step #1 http://bit.ly/oBuTUd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NVT7lyNRZQ&feature=player_embedded
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsH8xvjTAlo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btj6IeOFkis&feature=player_embedded
http://immigrationcounters.com/
http://ojjpac.org/memorial.asp
www.immigrationshumancost.org/
www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty580.htm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/02/immigration-costs-fair-amnesty-educations-costs-reform/
http://www.rense.com/general81/dtli.htm
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=41045
http://www.cairco.org/econ/econ.html
http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/003335.html
Every Non-representative including obama and holder are not upholding the oath of office! they swore to defend the Constitution! If these clowns were to do their job, this would all be a Moot point!
Anchors and their criminal parents go, period, you knew you were breaking the law when you crossed the border.
Next shut down any business hiring illegal labor. Oh and owners go to jail.
Got a better idea? Lets hear it!
steve smith
@florez.. if you want to come to this country COME HERE LEGALLY!
Vickie Arnold
What in God's name do you mean by "interdependence between the US and Mexico." The truer statement would be the parasitic dependence on the US by the bum country of Mexico.
gypsy314 ne
I see it differently if the Democrats had control and did the lines for self interest for democrats they would not say nothing so what do you expect from democrats. The democrat support illegal immigration and always play the race card when someone says the illegal alien most go. The voter ID is to keep people honest and only the dishonest would complain out it so. Bottom line the only hope for this country is to vote out of office as many democrats and the rhinos that pretend be something other then there trues colors a democrat.
voteforamerica
LATINOS FOR HONEST GOVERNMENT
http://grassrootstexans.net/pages/home/
Juan Reynoso's Blog - TeaParty.org
Ron Paul and NAFTA
September 25th, 2011.
The US Dept. Of Justice Promote The Invasion of Mexicans illegal aliens
Fellow Americans. We Americans through apathy, ignorance and Constitutional illiteracy, become complicit to our own demise. Obama, and the Democrat Socialist Party and the organizations of traitor ( LA RAZA, MALDEF, MECHA, LULAC, THE HISPANIC CAUCUS, THE TEXAS HISPANIC CAUCUS, THE NATIONAL HISPANIC LEARDERSHIP, AND THE PROMOTERS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION), will used any thing to gain political power, that is why we need to stand together and demand the enforcement of our immigration laws and our Border security. Democrats are the promoters of this invasion of illegal aliens and electoral fraud, through voting registration and open voting systems that do not require proper identification of citizenship. Our Constitution and our voting rights laws are violate by the corrupt US Dept. of justice that support this rampant violation of our electoral system. " Voting is not a privilege; it is a fundamental right guaranteed by more constitutional amendments than any other right we have. But the US DEPT. Of Justice play politics and violated our U.S. Constitution."
Fellow Americans, if we want changes on this corrupt system of Government we must expose the traitors and demand their removal from office or vote them out of office. If our voices are voided then we must eliminate the corrupt by force.
http://iowaindependent.com/46236/court-rules-arizona-can%E2%80%99t-...
God save our country from this self destruction.
voteforamerica
Fellow Americans, for your info, like me millions of Latinos know the truth. I was a member of LULAC, in Laredo Texas. LULAC was an organization 100% American loyal to our country until, they follow la Raza and other Hispanic organizations and become traitors, to gain political power, theri gree for political power made them traitors of this Unite States.
God save as from this self destruction. We are Americans first and loyal to our country the USA. Latino, You decide loyalty to your country the USA or be a traitor. you know that race have nothing to do with this illegal immigration, is the rule of law and our sovereignty.
voteforamerica
Tanya Flores, the issue is that they are illegal aliens, they are in violation of our immigration laws, and not one is above the law. also they are an economic burden to our state and country. I paid $ 10,000 in Taxes because we have to educate millions of illegal aliens, the cost of educating each student in Texas is $12,000 per student per year do the math, we have millions of illegal students it is not being racist or that we do not like Mexicans is a matter of economics and legality, we the taxpayers are the ones that pay for the ill policies of Obama and the Hispanics that betray our country. Any one that promote illegal immigration is a traitor. We welcome legal immigration.