Texans Deserve to Know the True Cost of Illegal Immigration‏

An interesting post from www.morrisonreport.com about Texas legislators dealing with illegal immigration. This follows this post about the American Renaissance conference! This follows this post about banning driver's licenses for illegal immigrants in Washington State and this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso. On a related note, you can read about Miss Kentucky Latina here, an interesting article about Jessica Alba here or another article about Salma Hayek here. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read a very interesting book HERE!

Texans Deserve to Know the True Cost of Illegal Immigration‏

Texans sent a message last November when we went to the polls, and
it was loud and clear: we want real conservatives who will take a
strong stand on the issues we care about. One of our biggest
concerns is illegal immigration, which is overwhelming our state.
Unfortunately it seems that Rep. Rob Eissler, chairman of the House
Public Education Committee, has already turned his back on our
concerns. He is opposed to a bill that would require public
schools to check the immigration status of their students. This is
not what we voted for in November. Please send a free fax to let
Rob Eissler know we're not going to put up with it.
http://www.morrisonreport.com/fax_test/index.php?faxID=97

Full report:

Last November, voters went to the polls across Texas and America
and sent an unmistakable message: we've had enough of "me too"
Republicans, and we want leaders who will do more than just mouth
platitudes that sound good. We want Republicans who will fight for
conservative causes and principles, instead of caving in and
kowtowing to liberals at the first sign of opposition. Some of our
senators and representatives in Austin have let us know that they
received the message loud and clear, and they're going to work hard
on behalf of the issues we care about, and there are indications
that this session won't just be business as usual. Unfortunately,
others seem to have completely forgotten the conservative
revolution of last November.

Rep. Debbie Riddle (R-Houston) has proposed a bill that would
require all public schools to check the immigration status of all
their students. This is a very sensible first step toward getting
a handle on the huge illegal immigration problem in Texas. As it
stands now, there are no reliable figures as to just how widespread
the problem is. If Debbie Riddle's bill becomes law, at least we
would finally be able to measure just how much it costs us every
year to educate the children of illegals in our public schools.
This is exactly the sort of leadership conservative Texans demanded
last November.

Unfortunately it seems that not all the Republicans in Austin got
the message. One of them, Rep. Rob Eissler (R-The Woodlands) is
Chairman of the House Public Education Committee. Recently he gave
an interview to the Texas Tribune in which he was asked about Rep.
Riddle's bill. His response to the question should anger every
conservative in Texas. At first he tried to avoid answering the
question. Then, not only did he say he opposes the bill, calling
it a mandate, he did so in a very condescending and offensive
manner. He gave the distinct impression that he wants nothing to
do with those of us who are concerned about illegal immigration,
and won't be doing anything to stop it.

Rep. Eissler pointed out that under Supreme Court rulings, public
schools in America have no choice but to educate the children of
illegals. Under current law, that is true, but Eissler is
misconstruing the point of the bill. There is nothing in it which
would order or allow schools to refuse admittance to the children
of illegal aliens. It would simply require them to verify
citizenship status, just as they already tabulate many other
statistics, such as how many children are below the poverty line,
what race children are, etc. Collecting one more bit of
information would hardly constitute a burden on public schools.

It seems likely that there is more to Eissler's opposition than the
fact that this bill would be an inexpensive mandate. Not only does
he appear to be opposed to efforts to rein in illegal immigration,
he also appears to want to use the very fact that schools are being
swamped by illegals as an excuse to raise spending on public
education. In January 2010, a Houston Chronicle article discussed
the fact that around 60% of students in Texas public schools are
considered "disadvantaged", because they come from a low income
family, or they don't speak English well, or both. Obviously, this
problem has been made much worse by illegal immigrants, many of
whose children fall into one or both categories. The Chronicle
quoted Eissler, who said the answer is spending more tax dollars to
hire teachers with "more qualifications" in our public schools:
"You have more and more kids that are less prepared to do well in
school. Where the expense comes in, you need teachers that have
more qualifications. Maybe we need more and better professional
development for our teachers." It's hard to understand "teachers
that have more qualifications" in this context as anything other
than "bilingual" teachers. Eissler admitted that his idea would
mean spending more money on public schools, which would also, quite
conveniently, give him even more power as Chairman of the House
Public Education Committee.

Rob Eissler's opposition to the Riddle bill is an outrage, and we
cannot allow it to pass unopposed. For far too long we've put up
with being betrayed by RINOs and phony conservatives, and it has to
stop. Liberals don't betray their base and start voting along
conservative lines when they win office. No, leftists are playing
to win, and they unashamedly represent the people who put them in
power. Just this past week, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor,
who famously said that she thinks a "wise Latina" would make a
better judge than a white male, spoke to a group of students at the
University of Chicago law school, and she made it clear she's
strongly committed to racial quotas and other preferences. She
knows who made her what she is today, and she intends to use her
power to advance their agenda. Meanwhile, on our side, we're
regularly betrayed by RINO after RINO.

Conservative Texans want leaders who will fight for what we believe
in, while there's still time to make a difference. California is
probably past the point of no return when it comes to being
destroyed by illegal immigration, but Texas isn't that far behind.
We must act now, or we will face the same fate that California now
faces, a future as a third world state. We can't let that happen
here. We need to inundate Rep. Eissler's office with faxes and
phone calls and insist that he support Debbie Riddle's bill. We
need to let him know that we're fed up with being betrayed by the
leadership in Austin when it comes to illegal immigration. He
needs to decide whose team he's on. If he's on our team, then he'd
better start acting like it. If he's not, and he'd rather win
praise from Democrats and the media for being "open minded" and
"tolerant," then we'll solve the problem once and for all in the
2012 primaries.

Take action:

Call or fax Rep. Rob Eissler and insist that he start voting like a
conservative when it comes to illegal immigration, beginning with
Rep. Riddle's bill to require public schools to verify the
immigration status of all students. Tell him he needs to start
opposing illegal immigration, or we'll find someone who will in
2012.

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Fax: (512) 463-0898

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Sources:
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-education/public-education/eissler-dont-check-citizenship-status-of-students/
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6795211.html 
  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704709304576124502622737210.html?mod=googlenews_wsj