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HAB911

(8,871 posts)
Tue May 9, 2017, 07:38 AM May 2017

WARNING: Texas travel advisory

All travelers (including U.S. citizens) should be advised, you many encounter:

- Illegal arrests
- Racial profiling
- Demands to show your papers

If your rights have been violated because of SB4, call the ACLU of Texas at 1-888-507-2970


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WARNING: Texas travel advisory (Original Post) HAB911 May 2017 OP
K&R! stonecutter357 May 2017 #1
Let us all BOYCOTT..... ProudMNDemocrat May 2017 #2
I wish they would try that shite on me! Dustlawyer May 2017 #5
I'm with you, I live in Florida HAB911 May 2017 #10
Welcome to DU, ProudMNDemocrat! calimary May 2017 #8
As a Texan, I say that is a good idea. MicaelS May 2017 #12
Yeah for the ACLU Gothmog May 2017 #3
I have tried to avoid Texas in my travels for decades. MineralMan May 2017 #4
We will visit our 90 year old aunt in El Paso mountain grammy May 2017 #6
That's a beauty!!! Chakaconcarne May 2017 #7
Texas was once home base for my peripatetic family. Aristus May 2017 #9
K&R UTUSN May 2017 #11
I was born in TX JesterCS May 2017 #13
I never lost anything in TX HAB911 May 2017 #14

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,780 posts)
2. Let us all BOYCOTT.....
Tue May 9, 2017, 08:55 AM
May 2017


Texas. Hit Texas where it hurts, in the pocketbook. As with North Carolina, Texas should be shunned. A monumental task, I know.


I will be god damned if I have to show papers anywhere I go in this country. My Mexican Grandfather would be enraged abut this if he were still alive.

Dustlawyer

(10,494 posts)
5. I wish they would try that shite on me!
Tue May 9, 2017, 10:03 AM
May 2017

We do have some really wonderful people here mixed with some total dumbass assholes. I tell them if they don't want government they should move to Sierra Leon. I am tired of their making us look bad. If you find that Louie Gohmert is your spokesperson you should know that you are crazy and check yourself in to a mental hospital. Oh wait, you won'the have insurance!

calimary

(81,179 posts)
8. Welcome to DU, ProudMNDemocrat!
Tue May 9, 2017, 10:07 AM
May 2017

Like Indiana, too. After Mike Pence signed that sneaky-ass "my religion trumps your rights" bill - IN SECRET. Behind closed doors. When he was governor.

The boycott of Indiana caused an absolute economic horror show when the people became outraged, the publicity was terrible, and corporations and conventions of all kinds headed for the exits. Cost the state economy hundreds of millions of dollars. But that handful of nuns and friars who were invited to pose for photos with the governor - they were happy.

MicaelS

(8,747 posts)
12. As a Texan, I say that is a good idea.
Tue May 9, 2017, 12:50 PM
May 2017

The only thing the Right understands is money, and the only to hurt them is in the pocketbook.

MineralMan

(146,281 posts)
4. I have tried to avoid Texas in my travels for decades.
Tue May 9, 2017, 09:50 AM
May 2017

Sometimes, it cannot be avoided, but when I must pass through that state, I do it as expeditiously and cautiously as possible.

While I'm sure there are many wonderful people in Texas, I will not be there to meet them. Sorry.

mountain grammy

(26,605 posts)
6. We will visit our 90 year old aunt in El Paso
Tue May 9, 2017, 10:03 AM
May 2017

but will skip the family reunion in San Angelo. Would love to visit our sane relatives who have come to our side courtesy of cheeto, but El Paso is as far as we go, and back to NM.

Aristus

(66,307 posts)
9. Texas was once home base for my peripatetic family.
Tue May 9, 2017, 10:16 AM
May 2017

I went back for my grandfather's funeral in 2007. Haven't been back since. If things keep going the way they are, I don't expect I'll ever return.

There are places in this country that are far less batshit crazy, and where I live is one of them.

Happy Trails, Texas...

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