Fifteen Texas cities, including Fort Worth, are listed as “sanctuary cities” on www.sanctuarycities.info. The criteria for inclusion apparently can be as simple as a photo that shows “illegals standing in front of a city EMS station” with a police department building in the background. Amazing how adept some folks are at identifying others’ immigration status by looking at them.
More proof of the absurdity of Texas idiot in chief Rick Perry’s claims of border violence spilling over into the US, El Paso Texas has been named the “Safest Large City” in the US. Though the city has been ranked in the top three each year since 1997, this is the first time El Paso has taken the top spot for having the lowest crime rate among cities of more than 500,000 population in the annual rankings by CQ Press, a publishing firm based in Washington, D.C. The ranking was compiled with data from 2009 in the crime categories of murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and auto theft. Detroit was ranked as having the highest crime rate. El Paso MORE
Emboldened by gains in the Texas House and Senate, Teapublicans are set to introduce a slew of anti-immigrant bills in next years legislative session that will make Arizona’s draconian laws look like child’s play. SOME OF IMMIGRATION BILLS FILED
By:Grits for Breakfast To understand Texas’ border security policy, you don’t actually need to know anything about security, but it sure helps to know about elections. Since at least 2005, Texas Governor Rick Perry’s re-election priorities have openly dominated Texas’ border security policy. Campaign ads stoking fears of “terrorists” crossing the border were the centerpiece of Perry’s 2006 gubernatorial re-election bid, and in 2007 the Legislature ponied up more than $100 million in pork-barrel grants – some of it going to people who where themselves working for the drug cartels – in an effort to create what’s really quite a tenuous, money-driven coalition between law enforcement on the border and anti-immigrant activists in Texas cities and suburbs. Perry’s incumbency advantage MORE
