Texas Lawmakers Put New Focus on Illegal Immigration
Tagged: border, children, Farmers Branch, latin america, Mexico, money transfer, police“In a sign of rising passions over immigration issues, Texas lawmakers prepared for the 2007 session this week by filing a flurry of bills that would deny public assistance and other benefits to the children of illegal immigrants, tax money transfers to Mexico and the rest of Latin America and sue the federal government for the costs of state border control.
At the same time, a Dallas suburb, Farmers Branch, became the first Texas municipality to enact measures fining landlords who rent to illegal immigrants, authorizing the police to seek certification to act on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security and declaring English the city’s official language.”
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November 16th, 2006
Fuente Traducido: usando Google o Altavista/Babel Fish
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