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Texas lawmakers vote for tougher immigration laws
Posted: 05.10.2011 at 1:09 PM
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As President Barack Obama prepared to give a speech on America's "broken immigration system" in Texas, lawmakers in Austin passed a bill that would force local police to give federal immigration offenses the same priority as other crimes.

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