RSSImmigration hot topic at town hall meeting
Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | February 29, 2008
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Most of the 40 people who attended Tuesday’s town hall meeting in Burleson supported stricter voter identification and spoke against illegal immigration.
Texas State Representatives Rob Orr, R-Burleson, and Bill Zedler, R-Arlington, hosted the event at the First United Methodist Church through a partnership with the Texas Conservative Coalition.
Conservative leaders State Rep. Dan Flynn, R-Canton, and Linda Harper-Brown, R-Irving, with John Colyandro, executive director of the TCC Research Institute, helped host the event.
The two-hour meeting drew lots of interaction from concerned audience members.
Most in the audience supported increased voter identification requirements and opposed illegal immigration.
All attendees agreed illegal immigration was a problem.
Colyandro and audience members said that causes of the illegal immigration problems included lack of enforcement, extreme poverty in Mexico, opportunity, a broken system of work visas, the long wait and high cost of legal immigration, language and cultural issues, costs for medical care and education, and crime.
“We’ve had a Texas son in office for seven years in Washington, and he’s not done a durn thing to address the issue of illegal immigration,” audience member David Watson said.
Some audience members thought they’d seen progress on the border issue. Others said it was worse.
Flynn said that although there are problems with the border, many things have been done to fix the situation.
House bills 1, 126, 1196 and Senate Bill 11 were passed to help with border security, human trafficking, document fraud, and employer sanctions.
“There really are a lot of improvements that are happening,” Flynn said. “There are some successes. We haven’t solved the problem yet, but we are working on it.”
The illegal immigration discussion prompted a discussion on stricter voter identification requirements.
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