Activists from the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Texas Civil Rights Project, Latino Justice and other groups staged the rally before Abbott's State of the State address. SanMarcos ManoAmiga Texas GregAbbott Border Immigration migrants
Carolina Canizales of San Antonio's Immigrant Legal Resource Center speaks during the San Marcos rally.Thursday at a magnet factory off Interstate 35 on the way out of San Marcos, a group of Texas State students and activists held a potluck in a public park downtown.
“The people who look like the faces we have behind us, we make this community work and this place thrive," Lopez said."It is certainly not the man who's giving the State of the State tonight.” “Governor Abbott is not the Texas that we deserve, especially when he has used immigrants as the scapegoat for all of his failures,” she said.Many speakers were critical of Operation Lone Star, Abbott’s border defense scheme that has already cost taxpayers more than $4 billion.
Even local efforts to protect undocumented people are preempted by laws like 2017’s SB 4, which forces local law enforcement to act as immigration agents,“A lot of people don't realize that San Antonio has around 200,000 households that live with undocumented parents,” said Canizales, a DACA recipient herself. “That's a family that can be separated under the laws that he has literally forced our local governments to enforce.
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