If you lived in Texas as I do and had seen the continuing influx of migrants that's flooded our state and strained our states welfare rolls, you'd have a different perspective regarding this situation.

Since the recent legislation was proposed this has been a HOT topic here and for good reason!

If these folks were all legal citizens and lived and worked by the same rules as are applied to every other US citizen, it would be a different situation.

Many of these very proud and hardworking people do so, and I applaud them for it. Hundreds of thousands and likely millions more live in single dwellings with 10+ others, work for cash and then send 80% or more of the $$ made here back home to Mexico and then hit up the county run free medical facilities when the need arises which causes financial havoc to the system without ever paying in a single dime to support it!

I'd like to see a SERIOUS enforcement of the border here to enforce the existing policies already on the books. This would be a great start!

The burgeaoning population of illegal immigrants were already given an amnesty in the 90s and all that was asked then was that they begin the same naturalization process all other immigrants are asked of to be allowed to become legal citizens, though the compliance with this request went mostly ignored out of fear of persecution, which has surely led in no small part to the current proposed legislation.

We are now mandated to have bilingual programs in our school systems to educate children of illegal immigrants which also comes at a premium to the legal taxpayers here ! What a sad joke this is on all who have to support this.

I take no issue with ANY immigrants, so long as they approach it in the legal and right way. Those who are here illegally and pose a continued strain on the economy and legal system should be deported.

In the last year an illegal Mexican immigrant killed a Ft Worth police officer and when asked why, his comment was that he did so because it was easy and he felt like his likely punishment would only be deportation at worst.

The Mexican govts appeal in all this to return him to Mexico and let them deal with it because Texas supports the death penalty for killing law officers will likely be done, totally subverting the fact that he killed one of not only our citizens, but a policeman.

This incident, though an atypical one, speaks of a much larger problem.

To me it's simple, enforce our borders, our current immigration policies and laws on everyone here equally as it should be and should have been all along!