The bill would make it a state crime to enter Texas illegally and empower local cops to arrest people and send them back to Mexico.
The exchange was over House Bill 4, which passed in an unofficial vote of 84 to 60 around 4 a.m. Thursday. The bill makes it a state crime to enter Texas illegally and empowers local police to arrest people and send them back to Mexico."It pisses me off," Walle said."No, no, no. You're my friend, man. I love you, but this hurts. Y'all don't understand what you do hurts our community. It hurts us personally, bro.
Under the bill, a first-time offender could be convicted of a misdemeanor and be punished by up to 180 days behind bars. The penalty would jump to a felony punishable by up to two years in prison if the person has repeatedly entered the country illegally. Spiller said that scenario would seem unlikely because a U.S. citizen hasn’t yet been wrongfully removed from the country.
The one-page bill says the state would pay five contractors to erect an additional 50 miles of border barriers and maintain the currently planned 40 miles of barrier, according to testimony provided by officials with the governor’s office.The state has issued $1.
Jetton said the bill also would allow the state to purchase more floating barriers to place on the Rio Grande. Earlier this year, Abbott ordered a 1,000-foot-long string of buoys, separated by serrated saw blades and supporting a submerged mesh net, to be installed in the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass.
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