Texas state rep says he has 'no regrets' about viral outburst over anti-immigrant bill

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Texas state rep says he has 'no regrets' about viral outburst over anti-immigrant bill
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Texas legislator Armando Walle went viral after his impassioned and profanity-laced outburst against an anti-immigrant state bill went viral.

“Y’all don't live in our f— skin.” That’s what Texas state Rep. Armando Walle told his friend and fellow representative Cody Harris, a Republican, who made a motion to cut off debate on HB 4, a bill that would empower law enforcement officers in Texas to deport people who they suspect are in the U.S. without legal documentation. House Bill 4, Walle said, “gives all the power discretion to that police officer to then determine if somebody is here undocumented.

5 billion to build more border barriers; and Senate Bill 4, which would impose a minimum 10-year jail sentence for smuggling immigrants. SB 4 already was passed by the Texas Senate and just needs Gov. Greg Abbott to sign it to become state law. State Rep. David Spiller, a Republican from Jacksboro who sponsored House Bill 4, said, 'There is nothing unfair about ordering someone back from where they came if they arrived here illegally.

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