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Pre-Filing, Day 1: A Look At Criminal Justice Bills Including One That Declares Illegal Aliens Sitting In Their Own Couch Watching Their Own TV In Their Own Home Are Trespassing


By Vince Leibowitz on Nov 11, 2008 in 81st Texas Legislature

Just when you thought it was safe, we’re back with another post on bills pre-filed on the first day of pre-filing in anticipation of the 81st Legislature. This time, we’re looking at criminal justice bills.

HB 38 by State Rep. Frank Corte (R-San Antonio):Falling in the category of “uh, isn’t that a little excessive,â€

Leibowitz thinks it's OK to sell booze to minors and get away with it and to just let illegal aliens do what they damn well please.

Another opinion piece, to like the cat box with, instead of reporting the news about the first day of bill submission.

I really wish they would fire all these overly emotional reporters.

Dixie

Great suggestions, Dixie! Perhaps with your wider experience in this field you can post a factual article outlining the anti-illegal immigration bills which have been pre-filed for the Texas 81st legislative session. I will look forward to reading it.

by State Rep. Debbie Riddle (R-Tomball) could be classified as both “Can’t you people get over the fact that it is NOT the state’s job to enforce immigration lawsâ€

Abortion, Immigration, Taxes in Mix of Initial Filings for Next Legislature

12:00 AM CST on Tuesday, November 11, 2008

By KAREN BROOKS / The Dallas Morning News
kbrooks@dallasnews.com


AUSTIN – The election brought some changes to the Capitol, but the new Legislature may be fighting again over the same turf.

The familiar issues include: a crackdown on illegal immigrants, abortion restrictions, school vouchers, college tuition increases, tax appraisal caps and the death penalty.

They stood out on the first day that lawmakers could file bills for the next session, which starts in January. It was the first trickle of what is expected to be a flood of more than 6,000 proposed laws – although only a fraction will survive the political wrangling.

Republicans still maintain a slight edge in the state Senate and the House, but the balance of power in the House isn't completely settled because of a couple of close races.

For now, legislators moved to get a jump-start on their agendas.

In the Senate, filing clerks were frantically keeping up with a pace unrivaled in recent years: About 240 bills were submitted, compared with the 83 introduced on the first day two years ago.

In the House, the number stayed closer to last time: 159 vs. 213 on the first day last session.

Many of the bills – such as property tax appraisal caps and anti-abortion measures – were debated but failed before. Some, such as improving Child Protective Services, are familiar themes from recent sessions.

"CPS is an issue that's been front and center the last two sessions, and we'll be back taking a look at that again," said Dave Nelson, a spokesman for Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound.

A bill she's pushing again would offer visas to foreign medical students who would practice in rural or inner-city Texas, a way to bolster health care for the disadvantaged.

Rep. Frank Corte, R-San Antonio, who has sought before to restrict abortion, filed a bill requiring physicians to perform ultrasounds two hours before abortions and ensure that pregnant women hear the heartbeat before the procedure.

Abortion-rights groups vowed to fight that proposal.

What might change this time – because of the slight increase in Democratic strength in the Senate and a potential tie in the House – is the outcome of many of these battles.

If a new speaker comes to power, the House committee leadership will change drastically, along potentially with its priorities.

In some cases, sponsors are looking for ways around what stalled the bills before.

For several sessions, the GOP-led House was at war over attempts to approve a cap on property tax appraisals. This time, Rep. Debbie Riddle, R-Houston, filed a measure to allow counties to hold their own elections to allow that.

She is behind another incendiary issue in the House: immigration.

She is sponsoring bills to allow police to arrest illegal immigrants and to ban students here illegally from getting in-state tuition.

After all the maneuvering in the Legislature, which will meet until June 1, expect about 1,000 new laws to be passed.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... 7aeaf.html

Since bsically every illegal immigrant (aside from perhaps those with expired visas or green cards) are in violation of 8 USC 1325 and 1326, basically every illegal immigrant in Texas is trespassing.

UMMM isn't that exactly what they are doing at the least! "TRESPASSING"