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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: Immigration Will Be Hot Topic for Texas Legislature Immigration will once again be a hot topic in the upcoming legislative session. More than a dozen bills have already been filed as some state lawmakers are tired of waiting for the Federal Government to reform immigration. In 2006, throngs of people hit the streets in every major city in Texas to protest laws aimed at driving illegal immigrants out of the country. Almost three years later, more than a dozen bills related to immigration have already been filed in the Texas Legislature. One seeks to deny automatic citizenship for children born to illegal immigrant parents. Another would assess an 8% fee for money sent to Mexico by undocumented people. Yet another would outlaw in-state college tuition for undocumented students. Also, one would allow officers to charge illegals with a state trespassing charge. "Farmers Branch has fought it, Farmers Branch has lost." Representative Roberto Alonzo of Dallas has filed a bill to prevent landlords from denying housing to illegal immigrants because they're illegal. It's an attempt to block an ordinance Farmers Branch voters passed to fine landlords who house illegals. A half-million dollars in legal fees later, that ordinance has never been enforced. Alonzo said, "It's costing every city that kind of money and the example is Farmers Branch. We need to stop that kind of rhetoric and we need to stop it now." Farmers Branch mayor Tim O'Hare said, "In Farmers Branch, people voted overwhelmingly for this ordinance to go into effect and certainly we're fighting lawsuits, but we'll continue to fight them as long as our people want us to." Many people we spoke to at the Farmers Branch Library are not as excited now about driving away illegal immigrants. Matt Wenthold said, "We can't spend two or three million dollars a year on these lawsuits destined for failure." Rachel Grzywinski said, "There just too much negative publicity. This has made everybody want to rethink it and get it out of our backyard, so to speak." It's uncertain whether any of these immigration bills will pass. The incoming Speaker of the House, Joe Straus, has said he will not support any controversial bills that don't have bipartisan support. The legislative session starts on Tuesday.
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