Illegal Immigrant Named Texas “Man of the Year”
Posted by StormWarning on 31 Dec 2007 at 08:37 am | Tagged as: Commentary, Current Affairs, Immigration, Mexico, Opinions
Sad. Its just another job that no American (or Texan) is capable of doing! The Dallas Morning News has declared that the illegal immigrant is the Texas Man of the Year. IMO, even Governor Rick Perry is more worthy; frankly, so is Kinky Friedman is more worthy. Shame and sadness falls upon the great State of Texas for willingly succumbing, and “tossing in the taco.”
He breaks the law by his very presence. He hustles to do hard work many Americans won’t, at least not at the low wages he accepts. The American consumer economy depends on him. America as we have known it for generations may not survive him. We can’t seem to live with him and his family, and if we can live without him, nobody’s figured out how.
I can’t believe this.
● Texas’ immigrant population has increased by nearly 33 percent since 2000, according to an analysis of government data by the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies.
● Half the immigrants in Texas — about 7 percent of all Texans — are here illegally.
● Texas’ immigrant population has jumped a whopping 32.7 percent since 2000
The myth of the “job American’s won’t do.”
“There is no such thing as a job that natives won’t do,” Dr. Borjas, an immigrant from Cuba, wrote last year. “Instead, there are jobs that natives aren’t willing to do at the going wage.”
The state comptroller’s office had a different take on Texas, reporting in 2005 that illegal immigrants provided a net economic boost of nearly $18 billion that year. While the state government took in more taxes from illegal immigrants than it paid out in services for them, the comptroller said, the opposite was true for Texas’ local governments.
Is this still the United States?
The importance of immigrant labor to Texas was underscored this year with formation of a new political alliance – big business and the Legislature’s Mexican-American caucus. They threatened to cripple the lawmaking machinery if legislative leaders allowed a slate of “anti-immigrant” bills to advance. The tactic worked.
And so it goes…[I'll add more to this later when I have finished some other work].
illegal immigration, Texas Man of the Year
