Texas is moving closer to giving police broad new authority to arrest migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
A similar proposal has already cleared the Texas Senate, meaning Republicans must now agree on a version before sending it to Abbott's deskTexas is closer to giving police broad new authority to arrest migrants and order them to leave the U.S. under a bill the state House advanced Thursday, putting Republican Gov. Greg Abbott closer to a potential new confrontation with the Biden administration over immigration.
A similar proposal has already cleared the Texas Senate, meaning Republicans must now agree on a version before sending it to Abbott's desk. Two years into Texas pushing the boundaries of immigration enforcement — busing migrants out of state, stringing razor wire along the border, and installing water barriers in the Rio Grande — new plans to let police arrest migrants and order them to leave the country are setting up another test that would likely face a court challenge.
As anger among Democrats mounted Wednesday night, one lawmaker recorded and then posted a video of a colleague lashing into Republicans during a private huddle on the floor of the Texas House.“Y'all don't understand the you do hurts our community,” state Rep. Armando Walle is seen saying in the video. “It hurts us personally.”
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