So. what we have here is that very fortunately our Speaker chose as a Speaker pro tempore to preside over this a gentleman who has not only a district that he is representing. and prior to that he has been in the county of Bexar a county judge. and even in such an urban area as Bexar County we have the equivalent of colonias. Mr. Speaker. the use of that word "colonias" has been so common among the Mexican descendants going back to the days of heavy Mexican immigration during the revolutionary period in Mexico that in San Antonio for years my family was part of la colonia Mexicana. the Mexican colony. because this is the way it was referred to. So we must understand that in the use of the word "colonia." we have a very. very generalized interpretation. Let me say.
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