Defiant Libs Bring Back Sanctuary Cities in TX
Does Texas have a RINO problem?
After being called to the principal’s office for being RINOs, Texas Republicans are now trying to grab a few headlines by pretending they’re doing something about the issues voters care about.
If you guessed school choice, well I’m sorry but you are wrong, because we already have school choice. The best they’ve come up with so far is threatening to ban sanctuary cities for what feels like the fourth time.
Gov. Greg Abbott’s office has threatened to cut state funding to three of Texas’ largest cities if they fail to change policies that the governor says limit police cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Around $200 million in public safety funding is at risk for Houston, Dallas and Austin, which all have rules directing police officers not to prolong the detention of individuals during encounters like traffic stops for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents.
Republicans are pretty tough on illegal immigration when lawmakers aren’t in session. But if we rewind a bit things usually look different when it’s time to actually deal with immigration.
Somehow, this specific immigration scam we are covering today has been going for about a decade.
This scam works because when you hear “sanctuary cities are banned,” you probably have an idea in your head of what that means, and you probably like that idea.
The problem is that idea was packaged into a bill that didn’t do any of the good things you were picturing. Texas banned sanctuary cities, allegedly to stop cities from harboring illegal aliens, yet the latest data from Pew estimates there are over 2 million illegals in Texas!
2 million of anything living comfortably in a defined area sure sounds like a sanctuary to me!
Some cities have also been under legal scrutiny from Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office, which said their policies violate Senate Bill 4, a state law that bans local governments from adopting measures that “materially limit” immigration enforcement. Some local leaders have pushed back against that charge, and the ACLU of Texas has said policies like Houston’s support “longstanding protections under the Fourth Amendment.”
For those who don’t know, the Fourth Amendment says that you the taxpayer must personally pay for legal counsel and court proceedings for anyone on earth who appears and requests it.
Austin Mayor Kirk Watson pushed back against Abbott’s threat in a public statement, saying that the city’s policy is consistent with SB 4 and only provides clarity for officers when they interact with immigration officers.
Democrats are making their move as the MAGA movement circles the drain because of yet another insane war.
In Texas, Democrats and Republicans appear to be having a totally fake fight over some sort of nuance in the wording of their fake law – a law purported to help with illegal immigration, but has produced over 2 million illegal friends driving up the price of housing.
The Austin Current reported that Paxton opened an investigation into the Austin Police Department’s immigration policy, which it revised after the January detention and alleged deportation of a Honduran woman and her 5-year-old child sparked community backlash. The guidance, adopted in March, bans officers from arresting people solely based on a civil immigration warrant as well as “unreasonably prolonging a detention” in order to contact ICE.
There’s 2 million in Texas alone, and Republicans are arguing with Democrats about what it means to unreasonably prolong 1 of them.
Is that a reasonable way to go about this? Or is that a fake way?