Controversy Surrounds Texas Border Policing and Immigration Bills

Hundreds of Texans protested against a new state-led security force that would enlist civilians to track and capture undocumented people. The controversial proposal, House Bill 20, was authored by Republican Rep. Matt Schaefer, who collapsed the issues of fentanyl overdoses and migration, ignoring facts and evidence to argue that migrants are responsible for a wave of death and suffering that exceeds the worst episodes of national trauma in modern American history. Schaefer’s bill, which Texas Democrats have dubbed the “vigilante death squads policy,” was among a bundle of proposals lawmakers heard Wednesday that would create a parallel, state-led border and immigration enforcement apparatus in Texas.