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Shell_Seas

(3,333 posts)
Tue Nov 14, 2023, 11:17 PM Nov 2023

Texas House Republicans Advance Racist Border Bills... Again

It won't be much longer before the Texas GOP runs out of marginalized groups to target.

https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/house-republicans-advance-racist


I’ve lost track of how many times this year Republicans in the legislature have thrown billions of dollars at the border or pushed for a “Show Me Your Papers” bill. We’re on the fourth special session, so it’s all beginning to run together. They did it again today.

Listen to Representative Gene Wu call out Republican’s excessive spending spree:


How much money has gone to Abbott’s stunts at the border so far? More than $10 billion. The total number over the last several sessions is $11.5(ish) billion. Today, they greenlit another $1.5 billion.

The GOP continues to throw all of our money at the border, and it hasn’t done anything except give them political clout. It doesn’t “secure our border.” This money won’t stop mass migration. We might as well be flushing it down the toilet.

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