I notice that each theme of the immigration hearings is different. One was apparently held last night in Plano by Sam Johnson- Theme: The Education and Workforce Committee will look into the employment verification system for illegal immigrants. The one in Austin on August 17 -Theme: The Homeland Security Committee will hold a hearing titled, "What are the criminal consequences of illegal immigration along the Southern Border?" and El Paso on August 17 - The Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing called,"What is the financial impact of illegal immigration on communities along the U.S. border?"

I'd sure like to be there to ask questions about the Trans-Texas Corridor and immigration. If Republicans are concerned about illegal immigration along the border, then why are they putting in a system in Texas via the TTC that will facilitate it? I'm not for building a wall along the border, feels like we live in a communist country, like East Germany and it's kind of amazing that the party that claims to revere Ronald "Tear Down That Wall" Reagan thinks a wall is a good idea, instead of, oh, say, enforcing the law and penalizing businesses who break it with stiff penalities. Oh, no, instead, its walls and concentration camps built by Halliburton and using the National Guard to man video cameras instead of funding Border Patrol properly. (and don't forget about the wall which will be around the TTC-the Great Wall of Texas that will divide communities one from another and dead-end farm-to-market roads at the wall)

Someone at one of the TTC hearings said that the projected population explosion in Texas that necessitated the TTC was due,