Irving Texas

Most people think of Irving Texas as the home of the Dallas Cowboys. Well, that will change as of the 2009 season. The Cowboys are moving to Arlington Texas, another suburb of Dallas.

My Grandparents moved to Irving in the 1950's. My Grandfather still lives there today. Irving use to be a nice little suburb of Dallas. Offering the home of one of the best known NFL football teams in history and one of the most watched PGA golf tournaments each year. The Byron Nelson.

Today, Irving is what most would consider a sanctuary city. When I was a kid, my Grandparents use to let me walk up to the 7Eleven for Slurpee's and video games. Today, I wouldn't be caught dead walking the streets of Irving. Most of the stores that I used to walk to as a kid have since closed or re-opened with all Spanish signs outside. I wouldn't know what to take to a store in Irving today, a dollar or a peso.

In an article of the Dallas Morning News written by Brandon Formby, Sept. 28, 2007, the Mayor of Irving, Herbert Gears, was quoted as saying that around 300 people are being turned over to I.C.E. each month. More than any other city in the Nation. It's the latest tool being used by local governments in the absence of a federal overhaul of immigration laws. So far, Irving has turned in over 1,600 people to immigration officials.

I support Mayor Gears efforts and applaud him. Just a few short weeks ago though, I.C.E. officials told Irving Police that they would no longer take suspected illegals if they had a class C misdemeanor. It had to be a class B or higher.

It is the lack of support from the Federal Government such as this that landed Border Patrol Agents Ramos & Compean in prison. These two honorable agents have been in prison since Feb. of 2005. This, in my opinion, is total "b.s."!! The laws are in place for our local governments to enforce. The laws are in place for our federal agencies to enforce but when they do, they are hit with some bureaucratic red tape bull crap!! The arrest of these two Border Patrol Agents is so un-American it ain't even funny. I feel as if there should be an investigation of U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton and he should be disbarred from every state in the Union.

These two men were doing their jobs. Protecting our borders. Protecting our borders from illegal immigrants, terrorist, and drug smugglers. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that the reason that Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean are in prison is because they shot Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila in the buttocks. I also forgot to mention that Aldrete-Davila was fleeing because he had been caught trying to smuggle 745 pounds of marijuana into the United States.

This is your government at work people. If you don't think that it is important to vote, think again. We have to stand up for our Nation and make sure that we are putting the right people in office. Putting the right people in place to work for us.

KP