Along with more barriers, Senate Bill 6 would devote $49 million to beef up law enforcement in a Houston-area suburb that's become a target of far-right media.
U.S. District Judge Alia Moses granted Texas' motion to temporarily stop the removal of razor wire at the Mexico border.the money to continue erecting a barrier along the Texas-Mexico border and pay for state troopers to have a presence on Colony Ridge, the Houston-area suburb that far-right publications have said is a magnet for undocumented immigrants.passed on a 17-11 vote and now heads to the House of Representatives, where lawmakers passed a similar bill that would devote the entire $1.
The rest of the money would go to continue building a barrier on the 1,200-mile Texas-Mexico border. The money would be on top of at least $1.5 billion in contracts the state has issued since September 2021 to build about 40 miles of border barrier. As of August, Texas had only erected 10 miles of the steel bollard barrier in Starr, Cameron, Val Verde, and Webb counties.
Colony Ridge, a massive residential development north of Houston that its developer estimates is home to about 50,000 people, has grown steadily for more than a decade. It came to the attention of Abbott and Republican lawmakers after far-right publications published articles portraying the development as a "magnet for illegal immigrants."Abbott suggested that he is worried the state's ban on "sanctuary cities" is not being enforced.
"There's no such thing as a no-go zone in Texas," McCraw said. "We obviously talked to the sheriff ... and he assured us that was not the case. Certainly, our sergeant didn't think so. Our troopers can go anywhere."is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans - and engages with them - about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.
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