Showing posts with label Greg Abbott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greg Abbott. Show all posts
Thursday, January 16, 2025

Nearly 54% of extreme conservatives say the federal government should use violence to stop illegal immigration

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  Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric has been a staple of his political career, but his attacks on undocumented migrants turned more om...
Friday, June 14, 2024

Life on the US-Mexico border is chaotic. An immigration scholar explains why − and it’s not for the reasons that some GOP lawmakers claim

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  As debate over U.S. immigration policy heats up during the 2024 presidential campaign, separating fact from fiction on the U.S.-Mexico bo...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott pull from segregationists’ playbook with their anti-immigration stunts

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  As a historian of racism and white supremacy in the United States, I’ve become accustomed to callous actions like those of Republican gove...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Indiana, Iowa and Texas advance anti-transgender agendas – part of a longtime strategy by conservatives to rally their base

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  Transgender girls in Iowa will no longer be allowed to compete in girls’ sports – the latest in a rash of anti-trans initiatives sweeping ...
Thursday, September 23, 2021

Texas voting law builds on long legacy of racism from GOP leaders

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  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill on Sept. 7, 2021, that reduces opportunities for people to vote, allows partisan poll watche...