DACA recipients

Regarding “I’m a Texan. Ken Paxton wants to deport me” (HoustonChronicle.com, Thursday), despite her claims, Damaris Gonzalez is certainly not a Texan. She’s an illegal immigrant who was illegally granted a temporary relief from deportation proceedings by the Obama administration in 2012 through the unconstitutional Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. But simply because she has resided illegally in the Lone Star State doesn’t mean she has a right to continue to do so.

Ken Paxton has challenged DACA in court, upsetting liberal activists, including Gonzalez who ambushed Paxton in a restaurant last year and berated him for asking the federal government to follow existing immigration law. He was cordial, but firm in his position, but because he hasn’t kowtowed to her and other liberal activists, Gonzalez now states, “Paxton has made it his personal mission to make my life hell.”

There are normal, hardworking people who are offended that those with no legal right to be here are allowed to chant “#HereToStay” in public forums with no fear of deportation. They believe the rule of law matters and that America should have a border just like every other nation on Earth.

I don’t know for certain if Ken Paxton wants Gonzalez deported, but I certainly do. And millions of other Texans and Americans do, too. Cary Cheshire, vice president of Texans for Fiscal Responsibility