Yesterday the state affairs committee met, as they do. Sue Richardson spoke as a witness reprezentin' the good members of Texans for Responsible Government, for the approval of (get ready) HB 127, HB 38, HB 291, HB 904, HB 905, HCR 11, HR 97, and HB 2998 (any bill having to do with holding off illegal immigration). You can watch her here (if you have a RealPlayer, starting around 46 minutes in). In her spiel against illegal immigrants, she compares legal immigrants to jelly beans ("like our legal immigrants, we love jelly beans"). She keeps playing with jelly beans while discussing how our state is overly compassionate to illegal immigrants from Mexico, and how they are responsible for the downfall of the American empire (I exaggerate slightly): they drink all our water, steal our spots on the beaches, etc. It gets better, though.
The best part of all is when Ms. Richardson surmises that the illegal immigrants are going against God's commandment not to covet and that coveting (covetousness?) is the reason so many immigrants come to America. Now here she truly loses me. Even though I know the words to certain "Jesus Christ Superstar" numbers, I'm no Biblical scholar. HOWEVER - I always thought G-d was talking about not coveting your neighbor's hot wife/husband/slave/donkey, not "coveting" the American way. Correct me if I'm wrong. If I was on the state affairs committee, at this point in her speech I would have been stifling my giggles . . . and hungry for jellybeans.
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Did she ever slip up and refer to them as "Jelly Beaners"?
I don't understand why we are so hard on the Mexicans, wouldn't it make more sense to limit immigrants that are actually taking non-landscaping jobs and commiting real crimes?
Please don't take away our brown brothers they are willing to work in 100 degree weather and their babies are really cute.