Conservative legislators have proposed several bills designed to obstruct the way of life immigrants have in the State, from going to school to having a job.
These bills suggest: the use of E-Verify, a federal electronic employment verification system that would separate the illegal immigrants from the workforce; the disallowance of in-state tuition for undocumented Texas residents; and the requirement of law enforcement agencies to determine the immigration status of anyone arrested, and placing immigration holds on the undocumented.
Bill Beardall, executive director of the Equal Justice Center and a UT Law professor, said: "Every session of the Legislature, for the past two decades at least, has started with a slew of anti-immigration measures – many of them harsh and strident," he went on. "Many of those efforts have been turned back, but mostly through the extraordinary efforts by a coalition of immigrant rights advocates working with allies in the faith community, business community, and the labor movement." This means that there is an economic drawback to all of the proposed bills that are trying to put obstacles on the immigrant workforce. There are sectors in the economy of the State that rely heavily on the foreign labor force such as construction and retail, consequently putting holds on the immigrant workforce would do more harm than good to the State's economy.
I think this article is worth reading because several people in Texas think that immigrants just cause harm to the State and it would be right for them to be informed about how the immigrant workforce actually makes helps for the prosperity of Texas.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2015-02-06/lege-targets-the-undocumented/
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