Lawmakers push some of the harshest immigration-related measures in the United States. The Lone Star State has long welcomed Latino immigrants, no matter how they got across the state’s 1,200-mile border with Mexico reports the LA Times.
 

Back when California voted to cut public services to illegal immigrants, then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush was preaching that immigrants were equal players in the state’s economy. But the atmosphere has changed markedly in Texas, home to about 10% of the nation’s illegal immigrants.
 

Now, a growing chorus of Republicans and some Democrats is pushing some of the harshest immigration-related measures in the United States — laws that would not only deny public services to illegal immigrants but strip their American-born children of benefits as well.

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