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LeftInTX

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March 30, 2021

He's back..Trump: Visit to southern border likely in 'next couple of weeks'

HARLINGEN, Texas (KVEO) — During an interview Sunday with FOX News, former President Donald Trump said he intends to visit the southern border in the upcoming weeks, following President Joe Biden’s criticism on the migrant surge.

“A lot of people want me to” visit the border, Trump said during the interview.

During the interview, Trump called President Joe Biden’s undoing of the “Remain in Mexico” policy, or the Migrant Protection Protocol, a “very bad decision.”

Last week, Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz went to the Rio Grande Valley to tour the border alongside local border officials.

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/trump-visit-to-southern-border-likely-in-next-couple-of-weeks/


Vomit.......Yuck....Stay away....Why here??? I guess Paxton and Abbott are inviting him to distract from the Texas lege....
March 27, 2021

Jim Crow Bill Out of Committtee and into Full Senate

Senate Bill 7 would make sweeping changes to Texas voting by limiting extended early voting hours, prohibiting drive-thru voting and requiring Texans to provide proof of disability to qualify for mail-in voting.

After more than five hours of public testimony, largely in opposition, a Texas Senate committee on Friday night advanced a wide-ranging elections bill that would further tighten the state's already restrictive voting rules and clamp down on local efforts to make it easier to vote.

Senate Bill 7 — one of Texas Republicans’ priority elections bills — would limit extended early voting hours, prohibit drive-thru voting and allow partisan poll watchers to record voters who receive help filling out their ballots. It would also forbid local election officials from encouraging voters to fill out applications to vote by mail, even if they qualify.

They also would not be able to proactively send out applications to voters who do not request them — a practice that is commonly used by political parties. Texans would also have to provide proof of disability to qualify for mail-in voting under the bill.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/26/texas-voting-access-republican-legislature/

The State Affairs Committee did not even take public testimony into consideration.

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About LeftInTX

Always a Democrat. I can't understand conservatives. I try to understand them, but I can't. They don't make sense. Our country has gone so far right since 1981. I was just an average American who took many Democratic values for granted when Reagan was elected. It was like the rug was pulled out from under our society. Reagan ruined our country.
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