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There is no group of people in the United States about whom less is known, than the undocumented aliens who come to North America to escape the poverty of their homelands. "Without Documents" sets out to explode the innumerable myths which surround the undocumented aliens: that they go on welfare, that their children crowd into the schools, that they contribute to crime, that they send mythical amounts of money out of the country, that they have more children than United States citizens do, that they take jobs away from citizens.

But they are used: by employers, by politicians seeking to get their names in the headlines. Since most are young, unmarried males, their contributions help support not only schools and other services which they do not use, but the Social Security fund, from which they cannot collect benefits. They are abused: assaulted by the Border Patrol, unable to seek recourse for wages below the minimum, for hours which can run to as many as 60 a week.

This book sets the record straight, giving the history of immigration to the United States, and in particular the history of Mexican immigration, for it is from Mexico that the greatest percentage of immigrants come. The author shows that the solution lies not in closing the borders -- which is impossible -- but in a cure to the economic problems of Mexico.

This law established the normal school in San Marcos, now Texas State University.

Materials include one complete and one incomplete draft of House Bill 696 of the 26th Regular Session of the Texas Legislature (1899). The summary of the proposed bill reads: "An act to provide for establishing, governing, and maintaining a State normal school at San Marcos as to be known as the 'Southwest Texas Normal School.'" A subsequent version of this text became SB260, the legislation that officially authorized the creation of the institution now known as Texas State University.

Select excerpts: 26th Legislature, 1899, text of S.B. No. 260, page 175: An Act to provide for ... normal school to be located at San Marcos; 27th Legislature, 1901, text of S.B. No. 142, pages 33-35: An Act to provide for the organization, control, management and active operation of the Southwest Texas State Normal School.

Excerpt. Pages 570-575 regard state teachers colleges.

Excerpt. Pages 701-705 regard state teachers colleges.