Posted on January 29, 2007

Texas Lawmakers Proposing Tough Immigration Legislation

To find out who is in the country illegally, House Bill 127 would require state agencies to ask each recipient of a service or benefit whether that person is in the country illegally, unless prohibited by law.

A call for tougher immigration laws is sweeping across the country and Texas seems to be leading the pack. Voters in the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch will soon decide if it will be illegal to rent apartments to illegal immigrants. Now, some state legislators say the children of illegal immigrants should not receive state benefits.

House Bill 28 would deny babies of illegal immigrants from receiving state benefits such as food stamps, health care or public housing. That challenges the long standing federal policy of granting U.S. citizenship to babies born on American soil, no matter what their parents’ immigration status is.

House Bill 29 would impose an 8% fee on money transfers between Texas and Mexico, or Central and South America. Proceeds would pay for indigent health care.

House Bill 104 and House Bill 141 would amend a law that allows immigrant students to pay in-state tuition at public universities to exclude anyone in the country illegally.

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