By David Martin Davies, Texas Public Radio News
SAN ANTONIO – A Texas state representative made national headlines earlier this year when he sent Mexico a bill for illegal immigration. Now he says he’s sending another invoice to Mexico’s new president.
It was last March that State Representative Lyle Larson sent Mexican President Felipe Calderon a multi-billion dollar bill for the services that Texas provides immigrants who are here illegally. Last Saturday Mexico inaugurated a new president – Enrique Pena Nieto – and Larson says he can also expect to get a bill from him.
LYLE LARSON: “We have a lot of cost associated with hosting folks who are here illegally from that country. Both education, health care-housing. From an education stand-point the issue of the Dream Act most of those folks are coming from Mexico.”
Larson, a Republican, has also proposed legislation to end in-state college tuition for students who are not in the country legally.
Larson says he wants to start a dialogue with the new administration in Mexico about finding a way to work together to end illegal immigration. Part of that dialog would include reimbursing Texas $3 – $4 billion a year.
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