Quotes from the first video clip: Cheap labor, businesses taking advantage of illegal immigrants, "we are a country of immigrants, it's our hculture", come in and do the job then leave, distraction from more serious issues like the war, "there's a solution out there but I don't know what it is".
Stephen Klineberg is answering the question "why are we all talking about immigration now?" He reminds us that Houston has always been a city of immigrants, and it has transformed the city.
Dan Patrick says there's a lot of losers. "We are not anti-Hispanic, we want people to come here legally", blames the Feds for "Texas' problem".
Immigration attorney Charles Foster says people don't realize we have a quota of 5000 visas per year, and there's a lot more demand for immigrants to fill jobs than that. He agrees with Sen. Patrick that we need a reform of the system.
Laura Blackburn with the League of Women's Voters says they are supportive of a path to legal citizenship. "There are 500,000 more jobs in this country than there are people to fill them - high level and entry level - and we need to fill them." About $70 billion sent to Latin America every year, $45 billion from the US.
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Born and raised in New York, Charles Kuffner got to Texas as fast as he could by enrolling at Trinity University in 1984. After graduating with a degree in math, he came to Houston where he was briefly a graduate student at Rice. Since then, he was worked in the IT industry, where he is currently a BlackBerry administrator with a large energy company. He has been a resident of the Heights for ten years, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.
Ree-C Murphy is a wife and mother of 3 living in Northwest Houston. While she enjoys writing about politics, she also writes about SciFi, other current events and life in general. While she did major in Political Science, she believes the most important part of political education comes from life experiences and observation. She has her own
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