Karen Willcutts, the Republican candidate for the 298th Civil District Court had her reception yesterday at the Reflection Fine Art gallery. I really like all the pieces there.

Went on to the University of Dallas where Blake had Francisco Gonzalez, who is the director of membership and campus leadership with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute came and spoke to about thirty some north Texas area College Republicans. Francisco gave out a whole bunch of books published by the ISI, including the "American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia," which suppose to have an entry for everyone who's who in the conservative cause in America.

Teresa Hawthorne is the only candidate in the April 11th runoff election showed up and introduced herself at our Dallas County Young Republicans monthly meeting tonight at the Dallas GOP headquarters. We heard from Andy Rittler, senator John Cornyn's north Texas regional director about immigration reform. Andy covered all the basics of all the bills that are before the Senate.

Here is the summary: the US Senate is currently debating and amending the bill S.2454, introduced by senator Bill Frist, the majority leader. Pretty much a senate version of the Sensenbrenner's bill that was passed by the US House, H.R.4437. The Cornyn-Kyl bill, S.1438 is seen as the compromise between H.R.4437 and S.1233, the McCain-Kennedy bill. S.1438 will stop incoming flow, thought not by a continuous wall along the 2,000 miles border but rather putting boots on the ground, increasing the number of border patrol agents and ICE attorneys for deportation proceedings; penalize employers who hire illegal aliens, which should eventually dry up the demand for cheap labor provided by illegal immigrants; and address the future flow with a temporary guest workers program, one that would have the workers come legally from their country of origin. Along with immigration reform, many have brought up the matter of making English the official language of the United States of America. I applaud senator John Cornyn, along with senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, for introducing S.1815 "the Strengthening American Citizenship Act, legislation to help and encourage legal immigrants who are prospective American citizens to learn our common language, history and way of government."