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Letter from Mrs. Susan Hildebrand, owner of the Shiner Ranch, to Mayor of San Antonio , Julian Castro, in response to his protest of the Arizona immigration law.
"Dear Mayor Castro,
I am writing on behalf of my family and many other ranching families who live in South Texas . I listened to your opinion about the actions of the Governor of Arizona, and I respectfully disagree. We have had to deal with illegal immigrants crossing onto our land for many years, and before the drug cartels and terrorists entered the picture, it was always our policy to help these people by giving them something to eat and drink. It is something we wanted to do to help them, but now things have changed and we feel that our lives are in danger from the recklessness shown by those crossing the borders. In the past nine months,
"Dear Mayor Castro,
I am writing on behalf of my family and many other ranching families who live in South Texas . I listened to your opinion about the actions of the Governor of Arizona, and I respectfully disagree. We have had to deal with illegal immigrants crossing onto our land for many years, and before the drug cartels and terrorists entered the picture, it was always our policy to help these people by giving them something to eat and drink. It is something we wanted to do to help them, but now things have changed and we feel that our lives are in danger from the recklessness shown by those crossing the borders. In the past nine months,
Ma Betty