Immigrant policy stirs debate in Houston, Texas

“With a 30 percent Hispanic population and residents from all over the world, Houston has long had a live-and-let-live attitude toward immigrants.

But that attitude is being challenged this year with the national debate raging over immigration law and the political season heating up. Anti-immigration billboards have sprouted up, and city leaders considered ending funding for a large day-labor site.

Most recently, conservative politicians called for an end to a policy preventing police from asking all people they encounter about their citizenship status. Critics say the policy makes Houston a “sanctuary city,” where police can’t enforce federal immigration law and illegal immigrants don’t worry about arrest.”

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