Texas immigrant population

Half of immigrants in Texas are there illegally, study says
November 29, 2007 Austin American Statesman released an article written by Bob Dart from the Washington Bureau. The article stated many numbers and percentages in response to the rapid increase of population in Texas due to the large amount of legal and illegal immigrants. Bob Dart found that half of the foreign born citizens in our great state of Texas are here illegally. So, the question arises, how can we stop this problem? And is our border patrol functioning properly? The article does not give a perspective on the immigration, but merely brings up statistics showing Texas harbors the most immigrants in the country with Arizona following shortly behind. If you ask me, it is about time that we begin to bring this issue into the limelight. It hits us close to home here in central Texas where a good majority of the city relates to the immigration. It is possible that we tend to look away because we do offer and depend on the immigration to fill job needs, but on the other hand a large percent are using our welfare that we pay for out of oue hard earned money. I think that now that Washington has acknowledged the spike in numbers over the last decade it is time to step up and change problems affecting the way our border patrol is run and try to reduce the illegal immigration into our state.

In response to Take Action

Your blog, Texans We Are, caught my eye the most out of the class. Your article on the day prior to November 6, titled Take Action, is important for everyone to read. I don't think anyone would disagree that the percent of people that vote in Texas is considerably low. So why do people continue to turn there heads away from our gorvernment? I personally also try to get people involved in voting. In fact, I am registered to vote in a precinct in Plano Texas, near Dallas. On November 6, in order to be a part of the 5% statistics, I drove home to my precint striclty to vote and make my voice count and came right back. I believe that the more people who communicate with others on the importance of voting will slowly encourage younger and less educated people to step up and voice their opinions to their state.
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Voters vote for booze Nov 6

November 6th is but a week away and their are many important propositions in line to vote on. One proposition may be especially important for the residents of Wimberly Texas. Wimberly Texas is one of the only dry areas in south Texas to remain. Recent years have changed other neighboring cities to “wet” and now allow the sales of beer and wine. Although, in Wimberly, you can drink at restaurants with private memberships, beer and wine are not to be sold in any stores. Instead the people living there have to make a drive to bordering cities to the north or the south when they want to buy booze in bulk. Five miles may not seem to be very far, but for a quick trip to the store, and with all the sky rocketing gas prices it seems tedious to make the drive when you will be returning to the city with the same alcohol anyways.
This voting day will provide residents a chance to vote on making alcohol sales legal in their city. Although, liquor will still be banned allowing beer and wine only it will be a convenient step for the general public. What I believe is interesting about this article out of the Austin Statesman today November 1, 2007, is to follow up after the election and compare the voter turn out to similar elections in the past. I think we will notice how high a priority alcohol can be to many people. It is said best in this article by Molly Bloom, from a quote by a local beer distributor, “People are going to drink no matter what.” Should everyone be allowed to purchase a tasty beer at the convenient store by their home? We will see on November 6th.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/11/01/1101wimberley.html