Texans who live along the southern border testified before the Senate Committee on Border Security to say illegal border crossings are out of control.
The 88th Texas Legislature reconvenes in just one week and already state lawmakers have filed hundreds of bills. A budget surplus, border spending, school security, and sexually explicit library books are among the top priorities for lawmakers.SB 1133, which was voted out to the full Texas Senate, would pay for some of the damage.Other bills, like SB 1403, seek to increase the minimum prison sentence for certain criminal offenses involving human smuggling.
"You're going to have some natural tension between the federal and the state government," constitutional law attorney David Coale said. Coale said there has been a growing perception over the last few years that problems along the southern border have gotten worse without federal intervention.But even if they pass this legislative session, Coale said the state faces an uphill battle.
The federal government, under the constitution, has exclusive authority to regulate matters related to immigration."Some of them are dead on arrival when they hit the courts. Others may well have some legs because they're able to get around the charge that they're trying to regulate immigration policy and really are focused just on issues that are traditionally within state regulatory bounds," he explained.
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