#64: Texas Immigration Battle Goes National
In The Thick
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🗓️ 30 May 2017
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Demonstrators filled the Texas House of Representatives on Monday to protest Texas Senate Bill 4 (SB4), which Governor Abbott signed into law earlier this month. The law bans sanctuary cities in Texas, and it gives police officers broad authority to question people’s immigration status. The protest escalated to the point that two state representatives each claimed their lives were threatened by the other.
What does this law actually allow police to do, why is it provoking such outrage now, and what does it mean for the future of Texas — and the rest of the country?
Host Julio Ricardo Varela leads a discussion with Delia Garza, Austin City Council Member for District 2, and Roque Planas, National Reporter for The Huffington Post.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of In Thethick is brought to you by 1,800 Flowers. |
| 0:03.2 | If you can just simply make the laws harsh enough, if you can just simply make the |
| 0:07.5 | enforcement erratic enough, people will be scared and they'll leave on their |
| 0:10.9 | own, and I think this is the attitude that a lot of people have. |
| 0:14.1 | Hey welcome to In the Thicke a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC |
| 0:21.6 | perspective. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm Julio Rico-Loberela hosting solo this week, |
| 0:26.5 | while my co-hosts Maria Nohosa is in the Caribbean, right. |
| 0:31.2 | Joining me from Austin is Delia Garza, Austin City Council member for District 2. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello, Delia. |
| 0:37.7 | And also in Austin is Roque Planas. |
| 0:40.8 | National reporter for the Huffington Post covering immigration and voting rights issues. |
| 0:45.0 | Hey Roque! |
| 0:46.0 | Hey Julio, thanks for having me. |
| 0:48.0 | Excited to have you vote. |
| 0:49.0 | So we're just going to dive right in there were major protests on Monday at the Texas State Capitol in |
| 0:54.3 | Austin right over Senate Bill 4 also known as SB 4. Now this law bans sanctuary cities in Texas and it also gives police officers really broad authority to question the immigration status of people they haven't arrested. |
| 1:15.0 | So Delia, give us some background on why this law is such a big deal right now. |
| 1:20.0 | We had a former sheriff who would cooperate with ICE and ICE detainers, and it was a big concern |
| 1:26.7 | in the community. |
| 1:27.7 | It often came up during re-election, and there was a candidate, Sally Hernandez, who was a constable, and much of her campaign was based on no longer cooperating with ICE detainers in our jail and she basically was attacked by our |
| 1:47.2 | governor. Our governor came out and said that he that one of his priorities for this legislative session was to basically punish elected |
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