SB 12 Protest in front of Representative Dee Margo's Office
Yesterday protesters from the Border Network for Human Rights gathered to protest the Republican Party's latest anti-immigrant legislation in Austin.
Protesters say that the bill in the Texas legislature is similar to provisions in Arizona's controversial SB 1070. During the debate for SB 1070, Texas legislators and elected officials including Governor Perry, Senator John Cornyn, and State Representative Dee Margo all said that Arizona-style legislation was not right for Texas.
Texas conservative activists, like counter-protester Sammy Carrejo, actually the ONLY counter-protester at the event, have defended and been supportive of Arizona-style anti-immigrant legislation. (There were other Republicans present, but they didn't want to join Sammy, so he went alone.)
That was BEFORE the election that is.
After the election, Governor Perry made several anti-immigrant measures part of his "emergency" list of legislative priorities, despite the fact that the legislature had to deal with an economic crisis and redistricting.
State Representative Dee Margo said he was against Arizona-style legislation while on the campaign trail, as you can see in this interview after a forum sponsored by the Border Network for Human Rights. Representative Margo makes his position very clear that SB 1070 measures aren't right for Texas.
But he has reversed his position once he was in the legislature. Representative Margo now supports SB 12, the bill which has sparked the protest in front of his district office.
(On a side note, I checked with the Border Network for Human Rights to ask why they were protesting in front of that particular building and they said it was for two reasons. They indicated that it was because Representative Margo's Office is in the building and because the El Paso Republican Party's Headquarters was located in the building. I told them that the headquarters for the GOP had been moved and the representative of the Border Network for Human Rights said they called the GOP and were given that address. The Chair of the El Paso Republican Party was present and is pictured above.
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| Protesters Against SB 12 |
Texas conservative activists, like counter-protester Sammy Carrejo, actually the ONLY counter-protester at the event, have defended and been supportive of Arizona-style anti-immigrant legislation. (There were other Republicans present, but they didn't want to join Sammy, so he went alone.)
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| Counter-Protester and El Paso LNRC Chairman Sammy Carrejo |
That was BEFORE the election that is.
After the election, Governor Perry made several anti-immigrant measures part of his "emergency" list of legislative priorities, despite the fact that the legislature had to deal with an economic crisis and redistricting.
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| Republican Party Chair & Fellow Republicans that didn't join Sammy in counter-protest |
State Representative Dee Margo said he was against Arizona-style legislation while on the campaign trail, as you can see in this interview after a forum sponsored by the Border Network for Human Rights. Representative Margo makes his position very clear that SB 1070 measures aren't right for Texas.
But he has reversed his position once he was in the legislature. Representative Margo now supports SB 12, the bill which has sparked the protest in front of his district office.
(On a side note, I checked with the Border Network for Human Rights to ask why they were protesting in front of that particular building and they said it was for two reasons. They indicated that it was because Representative Margo's Office is in the building and because the El Paso Republican Party's Headquarters was located in the building. I told them that the headquarters for the GOP had been moved and the representative of the Border Network for Human Rights said they called the GOP and were given that address. The Chair of the El Paso Republican Party was present and is pictured above.
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