undocumented i am grant you hire is for, quote, work to be performed exclusively or primarily at a single family residence. this can t be true. you will go to jail for hiring an undocumented immigrant unless it is your gardener or handyman. it is a hard line, but you can keep your servants, you can keep the help. this cannot be true. joining us now, wayne slater, senior political writer from dallas morning news. mr. slater, great to see you again. thank you for being here. great to be with you. are we being punked here. is there any reason to believe debbie riddle is performance art and not a legs lay tore? you would think so if you lived somewhere other than texas. in the birther is he session wing of the republican party, this is what passes reasonable debate and discussion. she s serious about this.
of people like me to make fun of you. at this point, you are making better fun of yourself. you down sized the shaming you industry. even beyond that, associated press profiled a piece of state legislation today that just cannot be true. a bill that is such a caricature of what you might suspect that it must be a joke. this is debbie riddle. you may remember her from the whole terror babies thing. regardless, debbie riddle is a member of state legislature in texas. she s a republican. she has introduced a law that would call for two years in prison, up to $10,000 in fines for anyone that intentionally, knowingly, recklessly hires an undocumented immigrant. her bill carves out one specific exemption, though. you don t get put in jail, you don t get the $10,000 in fines, you re okay, exempted from this draconian anti-hire immigrants law, you are exempted if the
party, which is still really all about fiscal conservatism and budgets and small government, and then looking at what they do. even just looking at debbie riddle s bill, i am guessing she calls herself a fiscal conservative. but is there any debate about the fiscal impact of something like the you go to jail but i keep my nanny vote? it would have enormous impact. if we turn policeman, although you have the exemption for your maid on the don t tread on me or my maid position, what you would have is filling the jails with small business people, with contractors and others who have hired illegal immigrants who are very much a part of the economic fabric in a place like texas, so it is enormous problem. i think in the end, that s going to be its downfall. is there any chance of it passing? not much. on the other hand, look, texas was part of the enormous tea
572 pounds and stood 6 8 tall. he earned $100 an hour promoting the heart attack grill. an arizona restaurant specializing in high calorie meals. river apparently contradicted rather contracted pneumonia after coming down with the flu. it might seem like a contradiction here. favorite of the tea party in texas wants her colleagues in the state house to pass a bill protecting people who hire undocumented workers. republican debbie riddle is pushing legislation that would make it a crime to hire illegal workers. that is unless they work around the house like maids or gardeners. then they re okay. her office says it s an attempt to keep from the economy keep the economy from taking a hit. let s bring in kathy larue. it doesn t seem to make sense. i think it s pure racism really. you can t be our lawyer, you can t be our doctor, but, please, you can clean my house and take care of my garden. how has the representative
immigration laws. state representative debbie riddle camped out for two days to be first in line to file several bills. they include legislation to ban sanctuary cities, audit the cost of illegal aliens, track undocumented students and require voter i.d. cards. immigration because the people of texas are no longer asking, they re demanding and we have got to make some significant steps regarding illegal immigration. by being first, her bills will get early consideration when the legislature opens its new session in january. meanwhile, on election day, 70% of voters in oklahoma decided to ban islamic law or sharia law from their courts. but a federal judge just put that new law on hold until a hearing later this month. sharia can dictate harsh punishments like stoning but a muslim rights activist filed a lawsuit. he claims that sharia law