Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.

Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are - the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America.

Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of Texas House members just last fall. You know, we've had almost 200,000 OTMs - the government categorizes OT 'other, other than Mexicans' - along the Mexican border.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

They are presenting an immediate danger to the lives of people in every Texas community and beyond. We strongly urge you to take action now.

By subjecting all projects to penalties, we are removing a loophole that localities can exploit by playing a 'shell game' with projects.