Texas Hypocrisy

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All of the posturing on illegal immigration is beyond belief. 

Unfortunately those that oppose the draconian response by the Trump administration and act violently are only playing in to the administration's hands.

Reminds me of the recent scene in Andor where the Empire shoots their own man on Ghorman so that they can get the violence and takedown started. 

They want a war with California. And they have no real interest in solving the immigration problem, that is for show.

While I believe in strong borders, the images of crying five year olds being grabbed at school and families being torn apart makes me want to weep. 

I live in a rural community with a large migrant population and shudder to think what would happen to local business if it was denuded. The great majority of these people are honest and good.

Let's call a spade a spade. Do they really want to stop illegal immigration? Of course not, well at least not at their own home anyway.

Read this article at ProPublica, Texas Talks Tough on Immigration. But Lawmakers Won’t Force Most Private Companies to Check Employment Authorization.

Texas’ conservative Legislature has again and again refused to mandate that most private businesses use E-Verify. Experts say that Republican resistance is rooted in how the system could impact the state’s labor supply and economy.

So put up a big front against illegal immigration but don't act because you know that it will kill business and farming in your own state. How Texan.

Texas’ top Republican leaders have built a political brand on the state’s hard-line stance against illegal immigration, pouring billions of dollars into Gov. Greg Abbott’s state border security initiative, including funding construction of a border wall and deploying state police to arrest migrants on a newly created offense for trespassing. This session, lawmakers voted to require most sheriff’s offices to cooperate with federal immigration agents.

Yet again and again the state’s conservative Legislature has refused to take what some Republicans call the single most crucial step to preventing immigrants from coming and staying here illegally: mandating E-Verify to make it more difficult for them to work.

Since 2013, GOP lawmakers in Texas have introduced more than 40 E-Verify bills. Most tried to require the program for government entities and their contractors, but about a dozen attempted to expand the system to private employers in some capacity. With few exceptions, like mandating E-Verify for certain state contractors, Republican legislators declined to pass the overwhelming majority of those proposals. 

 But fuck those guys in California. 

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I don't always or often agree with California Governor Gavin Newsom but applaud him for his recent statement that if the Federal government decides to ratchets up its culture war on California and cut programs and benefits, we stop paying federal taxes.

I am sick of subsidizing welfare grubbing red states that take so much more than they give. California residents and businesses currently give $83 billion more dollars than we receive back from the federal government. We rank in the top ten donor states per capita.

Time to secede.

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