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Hi John,
I wanted to check if you’d seen yesterday's email from our founder, Nancy Thompson. If not, you can read it below —
If you agree with Nancy that our diversity only strengthens our movement — we need your support, now more than ever.
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Thank you for stepping up,
— All of us at Mothers Against Greg Abbott |
------ Forwarded message ------ Date: November 15, 2023 at 6:23 PM EST |
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Dear John,
I am the granddaughter of a Bracero who married a Native American / Spanish woman. As a Latina — as an American, as a Texan, and as a human being — I am appalled that Texas SB4 passed yesterday.
Once Governor Abbott signs this racist bill into law, it’s open season on anyone who looks like me.
Under SB4, Texas law enforcement officers can arrest suspected migrants and deport them without any of the protections that federal law guarantees.
And what if the suspected migrant doesn’t go along with this unconstitutional process?
Twenty years in jail. A second-degree felony.
So many good-hearted Texas legislators tried to stop this bill. They fought to protect women, children, and families.
When it was clear that Republicans were going to pass the bill anyway, they offered amendments to make it less — and I’m serious about this word — evil. Texas House Republicans voted down every single one.
When Arizona said “make Hispanics show their papers,” Texas Republicans said “hold my beer.”
That’s a funny thing about beer. The best-selling beer in America is Mexican. The next — Bud Light — is the result of German immigrants.
But it’s not just beer. Immigrants from all over the world have come to America for a better life, and they’ve made our lives better as a result.
I wouldn’t be here today if my grandparents weren’t immigrants. And I’m not going to stay silent when a handful of extremist Republicans want to demean everything our country stands for.
We need real immigration reform. We need worker programs like the Bracero program that helped my grandfather join the American Dream.
What we don’t need is more racial profiling — don’t we have more than enough already? And we certainly don’t need the anti-immigrant mindset that Texas House Republicans are now making state law.
We’re better than that. We’re better because of immigrants. And we’d be better without these racist legislators. |
Nancy Thompson, Founder |
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