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@BetoORourke
Jan 16, 2022 • 15 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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We honor the life of Martin Luther King Jr. today by registering voters in counties across Texas and talking to them about #WhyWeVote.

Hope you’ll join us in doing the same.

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Found block walking in Bastrop County. #WhyWeVote Image
#WhyWeVote
Letti and Rosina getting ready to knock on doors in Laredo (Webb County). #WhyWeVote
Rocio is in Tarrant County talking to Alicia about the importance of registering to vote in the next election. #WhyWeVote Image
#WhyWeVote
Just registered Alejandro here in El Paso, a veteran and new voter. #WhyWeVote Image
Meredith and Marcus telling us why they vote in Dallas County. #WhyWeVote
Chanda (and Luca) getting registration forms to voters in Dallas. #WhyWeVote
Just registered Pedro Alberto in El Paso! #WhyWeVote Image
#WhyWeVote
Beth and Celia getting ready to register voters in Williamson County. #WhyWeVote

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Mar 28
Spent yesterday registering voters at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Powered by People volunteers are on college campuses every day registering and organizing young voters.

Quick thread on why this is so important and how you can join us:
Texas now has the second-largest population of young voters in the nation.

They’re helping to make Texas one of the most competitive battleground states in America, and they’re the key to winning big elections in 2024 and beyond. Image
After a surge in youth voter turnout in recent years, Texas Republicans have removed polling places from college campuses and made it tougher for students to register and cast a ballot.

They know that if more young people could vote, their days in power would be over.
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Beto O'Rourke Profile picture
Mar 20
SB 4 — the Texas “show me your papers” law — is bad. Its disregard for 100 years of Supreme Court precedent defining federal supremacy on immigration and international relations is based on a deeply flawed claim that Texas is waging war against some sort of invading army.

While that rhetoric is really popular on the extreme right, it is in no way connected to the facts. And it’s going to end up making the people living here less safe, less secure, less protected by the law.
There are a lot of desperate people trying to seek refuge, join family, and find opportunity in this country. Without legal options, many are crossing in between legal ports of entry.

That’s a problem that can be handled with more resources (though Trump and Republicans have blocked bipartisan solutions that would have added 4,300 new asylum officers and 100 new immigration judges, in addition to billions more in enforcement funds) and better policy (from more effective use of parole authority and work authorizations to completely overhauling our immigration laws).

But what’s happening at the border in no way constitutes an “invasion.”
That kind of rhetoric is not only untrue, it inspires the unhinged and violent among us to terrorize our communities. Like when a man inspired by this rhetoric walked into an El Paso Walmart to kill 23 people, claiming to repel the “Hispanic invasion of Texas.”

And the only court that’s actually looked at the law (a federal district court in Texas) found that it is likely unconstitutional. Because it is. Over and over again for a century, the Supreme Court has clearly said that only the federal government can make and enforce immigration law.
Read 7 tweets
Beto O'Rourke Profile picture
Jan 26
Greg Abbott has made the very real challenges at our border much worse.

Here’s how:
When he started Operation Lone Star 2+ years ago, he bungled the involuntary activation of 10,000 Guardsmen, delaying their pay and cutting their benefits.

Several have taken their own lives after being used as political pawns in his cruel theatrics. bit.ly/4b6qlp3
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After being ordered to push “small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande,” his own Department of Public Safety troopers are sounding the alarm, saying he has “stepped over a line into the inhumane.” houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas…
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Beto O'Rourke Profile picture
Jan 18
Exhibit A of Republicans working to worsen the chaos at the border for their own political gain 🧵:
Exhibit B: “Biden has tried to give border agents 100 new cutting-edge inspection devices and add 1,000 additional law enforcement personnel. Republicans obstructed that request. Honestly, I can't tell if y'all are for anything other than obstruction and cruelty.”
Exhibit C: “In 2021 and 2023, nearly every current House Republican voted against providing additional funding to increase staffing and resources at ports of entry to combat smuggling of people and drugs.
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Dec 8, 2023
Nothing wrong with finding consensus on an issue as important as immigration. But it would be foolish for Democrats to give into these failed GOP proposals that will hurt border communities, create more chaos, and encourage MORE people to cross between ports of entry.
The level of unauthorized migration to the U.S. is troubling. It's a security problem, a humanitarian crisis, and a political nightmare for the Biden administration. Everyone agrees: we must do something.

But cutting off the few remaining legal immigration pathways won't help.
I understand why many believe that more walls, stiffer penalties, and limited asylum access will reduce migration.

It’s an easy-to-sell strategy that every recent administration has pursued.

Problem is, it doesn't work.

But don't take my word for it. Look at the numbers:
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Nov 29, 2023
Texas Republicans forced these women to continue dangerous, nonviable pregnancies that almost killed them.

I hope you'll read their stories, and then commit to the work of overturning Texas' extreme abortion ban🧵: Image
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