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As time goes on, the illegal immigration issues in Texas seem to be getting worse. Despite Trumps efforts to stop illegal immigration in The United States, it is an issue that will most likely never be fully solved. Not only does illegal immigration affect our country but it is also very dangerous for the immigrants coming over. Since Trump's administration has made it more difficult for immigrants to come over, many of them will go to extreme lengths in hopes of obtaining a better life. As of May 2, 2019, border agents are searching for a nine-month-old and two seven-year old’s that are missing after their raft flipped on the Rio Grande river. This is not something unusual for border patrol agents. Illegal immigrants are constantly taking to the Rio Grande in hopes of peacefully reaching the states. Not only is this very unfortunate for the immigrants that don’t make it out alive, but it also puts more work on out border control agents. During spring, the Rio Gra

https://austinarea512.blogspot.com/2019/04/austin-cap-metrorail-system.html Although I have never used the Metrorail System in Austin, I have participated in sitting in traffic. Every day it seems to be getting worse. Just this past Thursday it took me nearly 30 minutes to get from my apartment in West Campus just to be able to see the highway. That's not even mentioning the traffic once I was on the highway. The Metrorail system might just solve all these problems for Austinites. If the city were to regulate them more and make more of them, Austin could start to have a transportation system similar to New York. With so many people moving in and so much construction going on, these rail systems would help the community as a whole and also give people life experiences they might not get anywhere else.

It is a new age! Unless you live under a rock, you’ve most likely have heard that marijuana is on the slow and steady path to legalization. In March of 2019, it was announced that Texas legislation would vote on whether or not “Mary Jane” will be decriminalized. The bill suggests that the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana should be considered a civil offence and requires a fine of up to $250. This would save the state about $2.6 million a year in criminal cases according to the nonpartisan Legislative Budget Board. This bill, House Bill 63, has been proposed by Joe Moody, a democrat from El Paso, three times now. The previous two times the bill was proposed it passed out of the committee but did not make it to a vote in the House. For many people this change could not come soon enough. There was roughly 64,000 people arrested on marijuana charges in the state of Texas in 2017. These kinds of offenses can result in loss of student financial aid and making it

In Jim Reed’s opinion piece, They don’t bring their roads with them, he discusses how Texas’s population is growing at a rapid pace. Since our state has more than 1,000 people moving here daily, many people have started to notice the insane amount of traffic that seems to increase by the minute. Because so many people are coming to live here, figuring out how to manipulate the road ways to our advantage is becoming increasingly difficult. Not only is it hard to build new roads with so many people on the road, but the amount of money needed for everything is a whole other issue. The roadways in Texas are very old and need to be rebuilt to accommodate for the future. In this article, Reed is targeting Texans as his audience. Reed wants to inform the reader on the future of their state and what to expect in the new upcoming years with all the new residents. He claims that with the amount of people coming in, dealing with building new highways is going to be extremely

In Norma Fowler's editorial, Border wall would destroy Texas wildlife, she discusses how Trump's wall will affect wildlife around the Rio Grande river. In her editorial, she speaks to an audience that feels a need to protect the Earth and all of its wildlife and scenery. Fowler claims that the building of the wall will make it difficult for ocelots, a small wild cat, to mate with the Mexican ocelots, which will eventually lead to the distinction of Texas ocelots. She states that not only will ocelots be affected but so will wild bird habitats, small plants, insects and many more animals. She claims that the building of the wall will disturb these animals’ daily routines since the wall could be in the way of places they usually go to. Since barriers have to be 5 miles away from the river, Fowlers says that the wall will also go through many preserves that are loved by bird watchers. Since these lands will be divided, tourists looking for birds will have to use