The Texas House of Representatives passed three bills this week aimed at tightening state immigration officials amid the ongoing migrant crisis.
The Texas state House of Representatives passed three bills Thursday morning intended to bolster border security. One bill sets aside over $1 billion to construct border barriers, and the second increases sentences for human trafficking. The third — known as House Bill 4 — would allow local police to arrest and deport illegal migrants.
The bills have been divisive in state politics, sparking debate that lasted for hours between Wednesday and Thursday. State Rep. Cody Harris of Palestine motioned to block new amendments, ending debate before the bill ultimately passed with a vote of 84-60. 'It hurts us to our f--king core,' state Rep. Armando Lucio Walle of Houston told Harris after the Republican successfully ended discussion of the bill. 'And you don’t understand that. You don't live in our skin.
He added, 'There is nothing unfair about ordering someone back from where they came if they arrived here illegally.' The Biden administration announced new border numbers for September, which marked the highest number of monthly encounters and records, meaning FY 23 as a whole has seen the most yearly encounters on record.
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