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Texas’s Republican Govenor, Greg Abbott has signed a new state immigration bill on Monday, December 18th making unauthorized border crossings a state crime. This new Texas law does not take effect until March of 2024! The new law gives Texas state law enforcement officers the authority to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the Mexican border into Texas, the law allows for jail time and removal from the Texas back to their port of entry. 

 
For further details please review and listen to this NPR’s radio show, “All Things Considered,” broadcast, “Texas governor signs law making it a state crime to cross the border illegally‘. 

 
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The White House, Biden Administration has expressed to members of Congress that they are open to a new border expulsion law, mandatory detention and increasing deportations! This is all being done to get congressional Republicans to back President Biden’s aid to Ukraine which is in the same spending bill. This bill also includes aid to Israel! 

Some of the most worrying ideas that are under consideration are:

• Prohibiting entry into the U.S. and effectively “shutting down the border” to most noncitizens.

A busload of migrants was dropped off at the State Capitol building in Denver, Colorado, thanks to the state of Texas! Denver city officials feel this is just part of a new wave of chartered buses being sent out of Texas! This group was dropped off around 8:30 am, on Monday morning and there were about 40 to 50 people on board the bus. Evan Dreyer, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Denver Mayor stated, “The state of Texas, the governor’s office, has contracted with two or three different bus companies to transport migrants out of Texas to various locations around the country, Denver being one of those locations,” He also said, “That’s our understanding, and that’s how this has operated for several months. Denver has received more than 200 charter buses direct from Texas over the last six months.”

For further details please review the Denver Post News Article, “Busload of migrants is dropped off at state Capitol in Denver“. 

 
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