Will Texas Pull the Anti-Immigrant Trigger?

Compared to the rest of the country, the feds are tardy to the taco party with its threat to challenge Arizona’s illegal immigrant law as unconstitutional. President Obama had successfully dodged the controversial political bullet for the longest until John McCain’s home state forced the pesky issue. And now, since a Republican representative is set to introduce similar legislation the upcoming January session, will Texas be the feds’ next target?

As clashing public and political opinions continue to gain steam, I suspect all jalapeno hell to break loose should Texas follow the Desert State’s lead. Although the state where everything is bigger may be on the verge of inviting political backlash, I’m one of many Texans who are accustomed to shrugging off our infamous reputation for ravenous appetites and Governor Rick Perry’s anti-Washington shenanigans. However big and bad, Texas, like other states, can’t afford to pooh pooh revenue and I hear Phoenix’s projected losses in tourism could topple $90 mil.

Maybe something good will come from what has been surmised as Arizona’s bad turn. At least, the enough is enough message has brought Georgia’s unfair practice of allowing those without citizenship to register as students to the forefront. The pass recently given to one of them after a traffic stop is mind blowing. See http://www.ajc.com/news/cobb/undocumented-kennesaw-state-student-525038.html.

In the larger scheme of things, both racial profiling and legality arguments hold water; however, let’s flip the fairness coin: if the throngs of undocumented Latino immigrants who flood Home Depot parking lots daily seeking quick cash in exchange for labor had been African-American, they would’ve been removed more swiftly than Hurricane Ike’s debris. Now stuff that in your taco shell and wash it down with an ice cold Corona because it’s definitely getting hot in here.