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    TX - Immigration may override other topics at border meeting

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    Immigration may override other topics at border meeting
    December 03, 2006
    Elizabeth Pierson
    Monitor Staff Writer


    AUSTIN — Immigration will probably be a major topic when leaders from the Texas-Mexico border meet here this week to discuss their state legislative agenda.

    The Texas Border Coalition, formerly the Texas Border Infrastructure Coalition, is slated to hear from border lawmakers, lawmen and businesses owners.

    Other big-name visitors to the Austin meeting include Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Rick Williamson, chairman of the Texas Department of Transportation.

    Speakers are expected to discuss how to improve roads, health and adult education. But immigration and border security may overshadow other topics.

    “The business community is complaining because they can’t find the workers, and just as an economic reality, we have got to depend on regulated, legal immigration,” said Mike Allen, vice chairman of the coalition and representative of the McAllen Economic Development Corp.

    “What we’re going to be pushing here on the state level, as well as on the national level, is a comprehensive immigration-reform program.”

    Speakers on the immigration panel include state Reps. Veronica Gonzales, D-McAllen; Rick Noriega, D-Houston; and Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas.

    Organizers were working to have Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler, appear, but his presence had not been confirmed, Allen said.

    Berman is the author of perhaps the most controversial immigration bill filed so far for the legislative session set to begin in January. House Bill 28 would deny state services to children of illegal immigrants, even though the children are United States citizens.

    He said he filed it in the hopes of prompting the U.S. Supreme Court to eventually reconsider whether all children born in the United States should be granted citizenship.

    Perry’s speech had not been written as of Thursday and it was not exactly clear what he would tell the group in his address, according to his spokeswoman, Kathy Walt. But he will probably discuss his request to the Legislature for $100 million to expand a program that gives money to local law enforcement along the border, she said.

    Although the state cannot change the substance of national immigration policy, Allen said TBC plans to vigorously fight Berman’s bills and others like it.

    Bills that portray Texas or the United States as anti-Mexican, in particular, badly hurt businesses and border economies, Allen said. The proposal in Congress to build a wall along the border injured the United States’ image abroad, and Allen doesn’t want a repeat performance.

    “We made a mistake last time when the talk of the wall came and (we) thought they’re not going to build the wall, but the talk did a lot of damage,” Allen said. “We’re not going to ignore Berman. We’re not going to let this bill” come up for a vote.
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    The business community is complaining because they can’t find the workers
    Tell them to pack their businesses up and move to Mexico. NAFTA should help them out with that little undertaking. The business can move to Mexico, if they don't like American workers and are so darn dependent on illegal aliens. You know what, maybe some of these businesses need to be out of business.

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    Speakers on the immigration panel include state Reps. Veronica Gonzales, D-McAllen; Rick Noriega, D-Houston; and Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas.
    Where are the Smith's, Jones', William's, etc. The group speaking on the immigration panel couldn't be a little biased, could they?

    Bills that portray Texas or the United States as anti-Mexican, in particular, badly hurt businesses and border economies, Allen said.
    How about bills that are anti-illegal immigrant, anti-drug smuggling, anti-human smuggling, etc.? Oops, we're talking about the same bills aren't we! What an idiot. Mr. Allen and his friends give new meaning to the term, "you'd sell your mother for a dollar." These people would sell their soul and our country for a dollar. Insatiable greed is tearing our country apart.

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    Re: TX - Immigration may override other topics at border mee

    The business community is complaining because they can’t find the workers, and just as an economic reality, we have got to depend on regulated, legal immigration,” said Mike Allen, vice chairman of the coalition and representative of the McAllen Economic Development Corp.
    What? Can't find workers? Where are they looking under their beds in the morning?

    Stop this two faced no good lying. There are no jobs in the United States let alone in Texas that need to be filled with "immigrants". They were all relocated to Mexico, China, India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Taiwan, etc., etc., etc.

    What jobs do you have in Texas that you can't find labor to fill?

    Come on ... cough it up, you lyin' snake.

    Tell US the TRUTH:

    WHAT JOBS DO YOU HAVE IN MCALLEN TEXAS THAT YOUR "BUSINESS COMMUNITY" CAN'T FILL WITH AN AMERICAN WORKER?

    You don't have any jobs in McAllen, Texas or anywhere else in Texas you can't fill with an American Worker you lyin' piece of Globalist Trash.

    GRRRRRRRRR!!!

    I suddenly feel like breaking something.



    CRASH!!

    Ooops ... there went Granny's Vase.

    Just Kidding.



    LYIN' NO GOOD SNAKES ... TEXAS ... get that Globalist Boy and all like him OUT OUT OUT of your state before he totally ruins you!! Public monies fund development organizations. That means you ... TAXPAYERS ... VOTERS .... call these Traitors on the Carpet; pull their funding; and shut them down. Check the charter of the McAllen Economic Development Corporation. Check their IRS Tax Status. Yep ... their status will be based upon economic development and creating jobs for ... American Workers .. not foreign workers.

    SHUT THE FRAUDS DOWN.

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    Although the state cannot change the substance of national immigration policy, Allen said TBC plans to vigorously fight Berman’s bills and others like it.

    Bills that portray Texas or the United States as anti-Mexican, in particular, badly hurt businesses and border economies, Allen said. The proposal in Congress to build a wall along the border injured the United States’ image abroad, and Allen doesn’t want a repeat performance.

    “We made a mistake last time when the talk of the wall came and (we) thought they’re not going to build the wall, but the talk did a lot of damage,” Allen said. “We’re not going to ignore Berman. We’re not going to let this bill” come up for a vote.
    perhaps if he had been in my shoes Saturday he would have a different tune. i think these guys just need a good old fashioned Texas sized butt whoopin.

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    THE TRUTH ABOUT AVAILABLE WORKERS IN MCALLEN, TEXAS:

    From: You got it, the McAllen Economic Development Corporation

    http://www.medc.org/labor.php?nav=main

    McAllen MSA Labor Force
    Abundant Labor Supply
    Texas is a right-to-work state
    No unions in the manufacturing sector
    Texas has instituted major reforms in worker’s compensation, lowering employer’s costs substantially over the past several years
    4th Largest Available Labor Force in the State


    Reynosa Mexico
    Abundant Labor Supply
    Three Unions in Maquiladora Sector
    Largest Available Labor Force in the State
    Reynosa’s workforce increased through migration of neighboring states


    Labor Demographics
    Type McAllen Reynosa
    Civilian Labor Force 270,413 549,504
    Employed 251,484 175,796
    Available Labor Force 18,929 373,708
    Unemployment Rate 7% 32%

    - McAllen, Texas ranks #1 in Job Growth in the United States (ACCRA 2005)- McAllen is the 8th Fastest Growing City in the United States (U.S. Census Bureau 2005)

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    In a state where your word is your bond and the law recognizes hand shake transactions, I think this lying Globalist Traitor needs to be shipped back to wherever he came from...don't you?

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    Other big-name visitors to the Austin meeting include Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Rick Williamson, chairman of the Texas Department of Transportation.

    Speakers are expected to discuss how to improve roads, health and adult education. But immigration and border security may overshadow other topics.

    “The business community is complaining because they can’t find the workers, and just as an economic reality, we have got to depend on regulated, legal immigration,” said Mike Allen, vice chairman of the coalition and representative of the McAllen Economic Development Corp.
    TEXAS CORRIDOR --- NASCO SUPERHIGHWAY

    Look at the names. They must stop any Tx legislation that would curtail NASCO.

    ? McAllen Econ Dev.........wasn't this corp name mentioned somewhere in the Tx Corridor &/or NASCO information? This is ringing a big bell.

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