A bill being introduced to the Texas legislature would create a vigilante patrol to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border, drawing sharp criticism from civil rights groups and raising questions about how far the conservative State legislators are ready to go to challenge federal immigration control enforcement.
The billwritten by Republican state representative Matt Schaefer, would allow any U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident without a felony conviction to join a volunteer police force called the “Border Protection Unit.”
Schaefer’s bill cites the “deadly activities of transnational cartels” and the trafficking of “lethal amounts of opioids such as fentanyl” as reasons for the urgent need to recruit amateurs to do part-time policing at the border, but it is almost certainly a response concerns about illegal immigration.
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