State Rep. Dan Flynn posted a commentary titled "Texas House Stepping on Border Crisis to Secure our Border", in the Texas Insider blog talking about federal law interfering with Texas ability to limit border passage of Mexicans into the state.
The writers argument is that Texas cannot properly protect its citizens when it can't enforce federal immigration policy, this forces Texas to hand any individuals that have been caught over to the US border patrol. The author noted that a federal policy allowing any immigrant granted with "permisos" is allowed to travel anywhere in the US and choose where they want to "promise" to show up for a court date. The author believes the only solution is for the Obama administration to properly address the border concerns in Texas.
It is completely agreeable that border concerns need to be addressed properly by the Federal Government especially since it's federal policy that is conflicting with how Texas is trying to handle the problem. Although it might seem like the Federal Government needs to fix this problem, it would ultimately be Texas who has to maintain border control. The only way for that to happen would be to rewrite the federal border policy. This would allow tighter control by Texas of its own border with less federal interference.
The author makes a point from a quote in the commentary that other states have tried to take border control into their own hands and found them selves with lawsuits. This reinforces the idea that we need to fix this problem through the Federal Government, and how big of a problem this really is.
The author was able to make their argument credible by presenting some history about border control and quotes from a meeting on the border crisis by some of the State Representatives. Since this is an issue that affects almost every Texan, it was meant to reach every Texan. In the end the reader understands what is being done about the continuing effort to secure our state border.
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