thecourier-online.com OP-Ed
Montgomery County is miles away from the southern border with Mexico, yet illegal immigration has affected our county in numerous ways, and now may be prompting a backlash.
Frustrated with the federal government's unwillingness or inability to stop illegal immigration, a group known as the Minutemen made news recently by policing the southern border. One of its members says the group plans to stage some activities here in Conroe. It is probably just the first taste of what will happen when local residents, faced with government inaction, feel forced to take matters in their own hands.
Texas spent nearly $4 million in 2004 to educate illegal immigrant students and U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a national, nonprofit organization focusing on immigration issues.
Posted by katie at July 24, 2005