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Texas House bill would give state power to “repel,” return migrants
Signal up for The Temporary, The Texas Tribune’s daily e-newsletter that keeps readers up to velocity on the most important Texas information. Texas Home Speaker Dade Phelan threw his help guiding a hanging border stability monthly bill that would generate a state device of officers empowered to “repel” and arrest migrants crossing the border outdoors a port of entry and return migrants to Mexico if they have been seen making an attempt to illegally cross the border. House Bill 20, the precedence laws filed by condition Rep. Matt Schaefer, R-Tyler, would undoubtedly examination the boundaries of the state’s means to enforce immigration law, which courts have traditionally dominated falls below…


