Houston Slayings Fueled Border Security Debate

On Sunday, January 31, 2016, the Texas Tribune published an article titled Houston Slayings Fueled Border Security Debate. This article is about a 25 year old male named Spencer Golvach who was shot in the head at a red light by an illegal immigrant named Victor Reyes and a few others who were killed or injured that same night. The first half of the article tells a chilling story of Spencer's history leading up to his death. The section following goes over the gunman's records, starting from 2001 all the way up to January of 2015. Between those 14 years Reyes managed to enter the united states four times illegally. After the encounter with Spencer, Reyes was killed in a shoot out. At the time the Houston police department were not allowed to ask person if they were undocumented a making it a "safe heaven" for illegal immigrants. This brought more attention to boarder security in Texas. Overall I think this article is very interesting to me as a Mexican-American since this talks about immigration and seeing how people give bad reputations to not just Mexicans but all Hispanics. These type of articles help notice any future laws or regulations on immigration that could be put into act.