Riddle Considering Legislation To Require Parks & Wildlife To Cooperate With Border Fence Program

Once again, State Rep. Debbie Riddle (R-Tomball) gets out in front of the immigration debate with something utterly stupid.

This time, Riddle is mad at the Texas Parks & Wildlife Commission for “their lack of cooperation with the federal government on the construction of a fence along the Texas-Mexico border.”

Give me a break. Riddle calls the environmental and ecosystem considerations TP&W is concerned with “minutia” and claims that that Texas taxpayers are “taking it in the teeth.”

Echoing a page from a nauseating, hate-filled, anti-immigrant speech given by State Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler) last spring, Riddle blames immigrants for diseases and crime.

Here’s more:

“The number one priority for all levels of government should be the safety of our citizens,” Riddle said. “Surely, the commission is able to see that they have a duty to place the health and safety of the people of Texas over the perceived and hypothetical risks to the population of fish in a two-acre area,” Riddle said.

Poor Debbie Riddle. She just doesn’t get it. She doesn’t realize that screwing with an ecosystem, no matter how small, has large implications for all of us.

And more:

In 2007, Riddle filed a bill that would allow Texas landowners along the southern border to have a fence erected by the state on their property to halt trespassers who were crossing into the country illegally. The bill was heard in committee but not brought for a vote.

The state legislature will reconvene in January, at which time Riddle said she will consider legislation that requires the commission to cooperate with the border fence plan.

“We want to give the commission every opportunity to do the right thing on their own, and I have faith that they will find a solution before session begins,” Riddle said. “But it is not acceptable to have the commission impeding the progress of a federal program of this level of importance. The people of Texas deserve and demand much better from their government.”

What a load.

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