Texas Legislature & Hiring Illegal Aliens

A Bill has been introduced at the Texas Legislature that would fine or jail any person hiring an illegal alien, except those working in your house or your yard. Your maid and nanny and lawn mowing kid would be okay, but if you hired them to work at someone else's house, you could be arrested. The Bill has not passed, yet.

Houston attorney Harry Tindall asks "why not exclude building janitors, construction workers, waiters, cooks, hospital employees and car wash employees?"

As for me, does my yard include the 6 acres of adjoining farmland? Are illegal alien farm & ranch workers to be despised and lawn boys praised?

Creating exclusions to the rules are nearly always difficult and unwise.

This smacks of a 19th century idea that Mexicans were only good people as maids and gardeners. As Sherlock Holmes would say, "The game is afoot."