Thursday 26 January 2012

US Election 2012: Sending Home the Illegal Immigrants

As the Republican presidential candidate race heats up, the telegraph travels to the border state of Texas to see how policy discussed in Washington affects lives on the ground.


THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Newt Gingrich would like to see an amnesty, Ron Paul thinks government, not business should take responsibility for the problem and Mitt Romney would veto any path to citizenship, but on the ground in Texas the problem of illegal immigration defies a soundbite solution.

In a border state where the economy is buoyed by the work of illegal immigrants, the idea of shipping them all home isn’t quite as simple as it seems. » | Alastair Good, Texas | Monday, January 23, 2012