Take Action! HB 7: Death of Border Security Bill Likely
Click here to email all Republican Senators and the Lieutenant Governor at one time. Ask them to adopt the two amendments listed below when HB 7 gets to the Senate floor. Ask them to move quickly!
May 23, 2023 | Austin, TX
Why does our Texas Speaker of the House seem to be at war with efforts to pass measures to secure our border? A Grassroots America report states, “Let it sink in that we are about to end this session with ZERO RESULTS on the part of the Texas Legislature to stop the planned destruction of Texas and the US with a wide-open border flooded by millions of illegals!”
HB 20, the most significant legislation in our GOP efforts to protect citizens from the flow of cartels, drugs, and criminals that inevitably flow across an open border, was victim of an unnatural death.
Although the Speaker claimed it as a priority bill, he allowed a Point of Order procedure from opponents to send it back to committee, where it died. Proponents of border security (you would think there would be plenty) are trying to graft important elements of the bill onto another border bill, HB 7, to try to save the effort.
The Senate must amend HB 7 to:
Add the authorization ‘to repel’ to the Border Force created by the legislation, and
Give the governor backing for the legislature to take independent action to protect Texans from cartels.
Talk in Austin suggests that the same treatment HB 20 received on the House floor is likely for the amended HB 7 when it gets to the Senate floor. Your outrage may be the only thing that stands in the gap.
TAKE ACTION
Click here to email all Republican Senators and the Lieutenant Governor at one time. Ask them to adopt the two amendments above when HB 7 gets to the Senate floor. Ask them to move quickly!
Brandon Creighton (SD 4)
(512) 463-0104 (Austin Office)
(281) 292-4128 (District Office)
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Paul Bettencourt (SD 7)
(512) 463-0107 (Austin Office)
(713) 464-0282 (District Office)
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Lois Kolkhorst (SD 18)
(512) 463-0118 (Austin Office)
(979) 251-7888 (District Office)
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Rep. Cecil Bell (HD 3)
(512) 463-0650 (Austin office)
(281) 259-3700 (District office)
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Rep. Steve Toth (HD 15)
(512) 463-0797 (Austin office)
(346) 220-0300 (District office)
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Rep. Will Metcalf (HD 16)
(512) 463-0726 (Austin office)
(936) 539-0068 (District office)
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Rep. Ernest Bailes (HD 18)
(512) 463-0570 (Austin office)
(936) 628-6687 (District office)
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