No Statue of Liberty in Texas

You know how the Statue of Liberty asks in the poem The New Colossus:"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Well not so much in Texas. A new bill is in the Texas Legislature denying benefits for children born in this country to parents who are illegal aliens. State Rep. Leo Berman, has proposed this bill so that it can be challenged and taken to the U.S. Supreme Court. He and others want the Supreme Court to reinterpret the 14th amendment, so that citizenship isn't given to children born in this country to illegal immigrants. He thinks a conservative Supreme Court will agree with him that the 14th amendment only applies to children of freed slaves.

Rep. Berman is originally from New York City. He's a conservative Republican (are there any other kind in this state) from Tyler. He served 22 years in the army. He is involved in other issues like voter fraud. He doesn't want to add a paper trail to voting machines, deeming that to expensive, but he does want voters to produce a photo id when they go to vote. Rep. Berman is afraid illegal aliens could be voting in Texas.

Texas use to be more liberal about immigration than California was. When Bush was governor, he made a great effort to make inroads in the hispanic community and was rewarded with 40 % of the hispanic vote in his reelection in 1998. Now the Texas Republican party is taking a hardline with immigration. They aren't alone since some state Democrats agree with them. These past 6 years under Bush has made everyone just a little more fearful of others, and a lot meaner. Who knows, soon we might be sending the Statue of Liberty back to France. Don't want to encourage those huddled masses coming over here.