The Down Home Immigration Battle

I was born and raised here in the plains of Texas, where my ancestors are all buried now. They came from Wales and Scotland, and drove covered wagons across the prairie, and made their homes in what we know as half-dugouts-basically holes in the ground. I have a family cemetary in Vinson, Ok, just a couple hours from Amarillo where I was born, where my great-great-great-great grandparents there, along with other relatives that died in childbirth, or during the Dustbowl. The largest concentration of my family lived where the Grapes of Wrath was based. I know a little something about pride in immigrant relatives.

However, here in Texas now, we have the 2nd largest concentration of illegal immigrants,(specifically mexican) in the country, second only to California-over 2 million.

My personal experiences with these mostly Mexican immigrants, (and I have had many), have been mostly negative in the last decade. These immigrants I am seeing now, are not the same immigrants that our country was founded on the backs of ,so many years ago. These are not the same people. Simple as that. The reason Texas, New Mexico, and California are pushing for immigration reform, the REAL reason, is because we're flat broke now. Because we have millions of Mexican immigrants coming across the borders, refusing to work, refusing to learn the language, and committing welfare fraud.

I have a first cousin who married a Mexican man, who came in illegally when he was five years old, and worked his whole life here. He became a citizen, went to law school, and is today a state judge in Austin. He is ashamed of what his people are doing. They are not coming here because they love America and want to be a part of it. They're coming here because we're giving them free everything, and they're bankrupting us all; Disgracing everything the word immigrant stands for in the American vocabulary.