Texas Scorecard By Cary Cheshire May 2, 2019
Brooks Landgraf accepted an amendment that grants welfare benefits to illegal aliens. And no lawmaker objected or even asked for a vote.Despite campaigning on cracking down on illegal immigration, Texas House Republicans just advanced a measure to provide illegal aliens taken into custody with welfare benefits. Unanimously.
On Thursday, the House voted on and approved House Bill 888 by State Rep. Brooks Landgraf (R–Odessa) by a vote of 94-46.
What HB 888 originally sought to do was provide law enforcement tools to combat illegal immigration. Specifically, the legislation was ostensibly filed to address a problem whereby smugglers use illegal alien children as human shields to protect themselves from deportation and prosecution, exploiting U.S. immigration policy. Former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen detailed the problem at a congressional hearing this past March.
“Over the past five years, we have seen a 620% increase in families, or those posing as families, apprehended at the border,†said Nielsen.
“Of great concern to me is that the children are being used as pawns to get into our country. We have encountered recycling rings, where innocent young people are used multiple times to help aliens gain illegal entry. As a nation, we simply cannot stand for this.â€
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