Local Democratic lawmakers are sounding the alarm about Senate Bill 4, which imposes a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for migrant smuggling.
Critics are using adjectives like “extreme,” “evil” and “blatantly racist” to describe an anti-immigrant bill that’s now headed to the governor’s desk.for anyone deemed to have smuggled undocumented migrants. Two additional anti-immigrant bills, House Bills 4 and 6, were also approved and are headed to the Senate.
Mesquite state Rep. Victoria Neave Criado, chair of the Mexican American Legislative Caucus, spoke out against SB 4 in a video posted to X on Wednesday.“A decade of their lives. Driving family members to the grocery store, to the doctor, to the church or school,” the Dallas Democrat said. “A decade of our lives for simply living our lives. The heartless consequences of forcing families apart will ripple throughout our state.
State Rep. Rafael Anchía, another local Democrat and former MALC chair, posted his takedown of SB 4 in which he explained that “ords cannot express how angry and stressed this makes me now that SB4 has passed. ow worried I am andThe American Civil Liberties Union of Texas slammed SB 4, HB 4 and HB 6 as “extreme” in a social media post. It referenced a report fromNEW: The Texas House voted early this morning to pass three extreme anti-immigrant bills — amid new revelations about links between white supremacists and certain politicians behind these bills.
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