Gas prices are blowing through the roof. Egg and milk prices are rising and families are losing their homes. The economy is not running on three wheels — it’s running on two.

Yet the new mayor of Farmers Branch Texas, Tim O’Hare, is making his top priority giving the boot to undocumented residents.

In his blog, O’Hare responds to a concerned citizen questioning the fact that what Farmers Branch needs to address is the status quo of the economy — not immigration issues. He responds by stating that Spanish-speaking kids take up a lot of the money the schools would use for other things, such as giving English-speakers a higher quality education, and how landlords are allowing too many people to live in one house (up to ten, he says) therefore devaluing the price of the land because the landlord doesn’t care about the looks of the property.

He goes on to say how uninsured motorists hike up the price of insurance and how Parkland (a hospital in Dallas) spent millions on healthcare for undocumented residents. He ends the response by saying that it’s not even about the economy, it’s about the law.

In a time of economical hardship, his main objective is to spend tax money addressing federal issues.

Another winning mayoral ticket that thinks making illegal immigration should be his city’s first priority is Carrollton’s new mayor Ron Branson. Branson, who also plans to compare notes with suburbia neighbor O’Hare, wants to form committees to expedite the process of ridding the city of undocumented immigrants.

Ron Branson states on his website that he welcomes new ideas, and that he plans to address the immigration problems by enforcing current laws and tightening up other areas of enforcement. His main objective seems to be to industrialize and revamp Carrollton as a destination, not just a ride-through kind of city.

The win for both mayors, based mainly on an immigration platform, raises many issues that are not being brought up. Are all the people that lost their homes and who have limited budgets too busy to vote?

What about other issues like small businesses closing due to distribution problems and restaurants suffering due to increased prices or environmental issues, economic stability, stagnant enrollment at universities, children in foster care, the homeless, the rising price of gasoline — these concerns aren’t being addressed, yet these are issues in every community throughout the country.

And what about Mayors defying federal laws? Where does that lead?

It leads to more laws on the books targeting a certain group of people and not addressing the issues that impact the day-to-day survival of everyone.