Debra Medina Talks About Immigration
A hat tip to readers Jennifer and TexanByBirth for making us aware shortly after posting regarding the gubernatorial candidates’ positions on immigration of Debra Medina’s recent announcement on this issue.  Much is to be liked with this, but there are some missing – and potentially troubling parts. One of the key things mentioned that was good was “Eliminating social incentives to illegal immigration by seeking legislation prohibiting use of state funds for service or benefit of illegal aliens.” There will obviously be legal challenges to this by various groups, but we applaud at least someone taking a stand on a key component to the problem. What was missing was more on control at the border other than the sending of troops (which I don’t think can be sustained indefinitely) and in any case would not be for the entire state boundary line. So, we need more information on a physical barrier that the U.S. government seemingly has no inclination to finish (although it has the appropriations to do so).  Finally what was troubling was the part about nullifying treaties. As we are a constitutionally-oriented group, treaty negotiation was always reserved for the federal government – never a state, so this would be hard to support let alone constitutionally perform.  Nullifying an unconstitutional law – that’s potentially within the bounds of the Constitution and so we would need to look at the state-oriented obligations that NAFTA and other treaties created as a result as a means to potentially defeat the negative aspects of these treaties.
Debra at least gave a prospective path to “eating the Elephant” (which as the old saying is one bite at time), what say you Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison?
