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At times in the past, the U.S. did not restrict the number of immigrants.

There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.

Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion.

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.