Chairman Hinojosa Releases Statement Denouncing H.B. 20, Texas Republicans' "Show Me Your Papers" Bi

[douglas9]

AUSTIN, Texas -- Today, Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa released the following statement on Texas Republicans’ filing of H.B. 20, a bill to create a new “Show Me Your Papers” state police force across the majority-Latino region of South Texas to harass and attempt to detain any individual they suspect of being undocumented:

“Born to Mexican parents, I have been an American citizen my entire life, born minutes from the U.S.-Mexico border. Under this law, one of this bill’s newly-created police agents could pull me over and demand proof of my citizenship – simply for my ‘crime’ of looking Hispanic.

“H.B. 20 is an egregious assault on our basic civil liberties and our core values as a nation of immigrants. As we have seen in past iterations of this racist, fear-mongering concept, ‘Show Me Your Papers’ laws only stand to inflict constant anxiety and mental trauma upon all people who even look like they could be undocumented immigrants – whatever that means.

“This heinous bill, if passed, would do nothing to curb the crisis at our border – it would merely subject South Texans to constant state-mandated racial profiling and a level of big-brother police-state dystopia they could have never even imagined.”

https://www.texasdemocrats.org/media/chairman-hinojosa-releases-statement-denouncing-hb-20-texas-republicans-show-me-your-papers-bill

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. No true Texan can sleep soundly while the Texas legislature is in session

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[Freethinker65]

2. State mandated racial harassment seems to be the goal.

Perhaps if enough Hispanics leave TX, while TX white females are denied contraception and family planning, the GOP white breeding plan will have its test State.