Immigration in Texas?

One of my fellow classmates, Kristen posted an article about Immigration In Texas. She states the article says that illegal immigration should stop and Texas should take control and make their own laws since the Federal Government isn’t taking any actions yet. There weren’t many facts in the article stated about the status of immigration in Texas and she didn’t go into detail why she supported anti-immigration. She did state though that the Migration Policy Institute has reported that over 1 million illegal immigrants and their children reside in Texas at this time. This is a very big number for that many illegal immigrants to be living in Texas. I do agree with my classmate on some extent to the subject. I think we should have a better plan to stop illegal immigrants coming into our state. But I also believe a lot of these immigrants hold jobs that many other Americans wouldn’t be willing to do such as construction. I believe the illegal immigrants that are already here in Texas or anywhere in America should be able to get citizenship so we don’t have this problem and they are paying taxes which seem to be a important issue in this article. I know this very hard to get all these people citizenship but we should try to get as many as we can. People want to come to America and get their kids better education and live better lives so we should be able to give it to them but yes we should also do it the right way and stop people from crossing the border with fake social security numbers and passports. It is hard for me to pick sides on this issue just because my parents were immigrants and I wouldn’t have the things I have today without them coming here. But I do believe we need to have laws to stop immigration but not get rid of the existing ones right now.