On Immigration, Texas GOP Steers Right

Texas GOP Takes A Hard Right On Immigration
Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, questions John Bradley during a hearing by members of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, in Austin, Texas. Legislators heard testimony from Bradley, the new chairman of the revamped forensic science commission, and attempted to learn the status of the case of executed convicted killer Cameron Todd Willingham. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)
Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, questions John Bradley during a hearing by members of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, in Austin, Texas. Legislators heard testimony from Bradley, the new chairman of the revamped forensic science commission, and attempted to learn the status of the case of executed convicted killer Cameron Todd Willingham. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)

For two decades, the Texas Republican Party has been the great dissenter as the national GOP veered right on immigration. But it doesn't take very long around Dan Patrick, the Republican who will almost certainly win election in November as the state's powerful lieutenant governor, to realize those days are gone.

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