News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

State panel hears testimony on immigration bills

By Brandi Grissom / Austin Bureau
Article Launched: 04/17/2007 12:00:00 AM MDT

AUSTIN -- The Sin Fronteras farmworker center in South El Paso might not exist today had a bill that lawmakers considered Monday been in place a decade ago, said city attorney Charles McNabb.

The House State Affairs Committee heard testimony on a gaggle of immigration-related bills Monday. Most of the proposals were meant to limit employment opportunities for undocumented workers and help track how much illegal immigration costs Texas.

One of the bills would prohibit cities from spending money to build day-labor sites that help undocumented workers find jobs.

State Rep. Bill Zedler, R-Arlington, filed the bill intended to prohibit cities from creating and operating day-labor sites.

"A day-labor center that knowingly facilitates the employment of illegal workers is aiding and abetting a federal immigration crime already in process," Zedler said.

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