Republican Rep. Debbie Riddle of Tomball told the San Antonio Express-News and Houston Chronicle she'll introduce the measure in the January legislative session.

The new Arizona law would require local and state law enforcement to question people about their immigration status -- and make it a crime for immigrants to lack registration documents.

Riddle said if the federal government did its job "Arizona wouldn't have to take this action, and neither would Texas," she said.

Democrats said such legislation is misguided and predict it will hurt the GOP politically.

El Paso immigration attorney Carlos Spector said Arizona's law and a similiar in Texas would be regressive.

"This brings Rosa Parks alive in the Hispanic community where people are going to be arrested on the basis of how they look or how they look or how they dress," Spector said.

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