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No doubt Texas has its shortcomings in dealing with illegal aliens, but Texas is not in charge of the border. The feds are in totally control of all USA borders.

This is not a Republican/Democrat issue. GWB was our governor and then our President. He didn't do anything to help either. The feds as a whole just don't care...period.

The "HOPE" the illegals have is the impending "CHANGE" that will occur when "amnesty" is granted. If our federal government, Republicans and Democrats, took the stand that amnesty will never be granted to an illegal, then the inrush of illegals might slow (don't worry about the feds doing anything).

The "bum rush" is on and the federal government's attitude effects the amount of illegals entering the country.

Amnesty was the wrong thing to do at 1.2 million and it will be the wrong thing to do at 12 million.

Our own courts have ruled that an illegal must be educated with taxpayers' money if he is in the state.

As for as state colleges go, any legal citizen of another state will pay through the nose to go to our state colleges. But an illegal alien that has taken up illegal residence in Texas only pays the low state rate.

There is not going to be a good answer for this. The prime mover for this is the amount of leftist voters that the Democrats would garner by granting amnesty.

We are headed for a leftist South American style of government and there's not anything we can do.

When I said the feds don't care, that's not completely true...Obama does care and he fully plans to change the USA forever. It WILL happen.