Texas House approves sanctuary cities bill after 16-hour debate [View all]
Source: Austin American Statesman
After more than 16 hours of debate, the Texas House at about 3 a.m. Thursday voted 93-54 to approve the bill to ban so-called sanctuary cities, the common term for jurisdictions that decline to assist federal immigration enforcement.
Along the way, lawmakers cried, fought and traded horses on the Texas House floor, and the bill was amended to be more in line with the goals of hard-line conservatives.
Calling it the defining showdown of this legislative session for their constituents and wearing black in protest, outnumbered Democrats had lined up scores of amendments and planned to fight Senate Bill 4 late into the night.
But almost all of their amendments were defeated, and tea party-aligned Republicans countered by introducing measures that would make the bill stricter, restoring some elements that were stripped out by a House committee after being approved by the Senate.
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