She’s apparently competing with Jasmine Crockett to be the dumbest member of congress
Texas congresswoman files legislation to make changes to how immigration laws are enforced
A Texas congresswoman is among those on Capitol Hill who want major changes in the way federal agents enforce immigration law.
U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-Houston) has filed legislation to allow local authorities to be able to decide which immigration laws they want to enforce and which ones to ignore.
Garcia spoke to Greg Groogan with FOX 26 Houston and told him the Trump Administration is allowing ICE agents to terrorize communities and violate constitutional rights.
“They’re threatening our cities, they’re just tearing our country apart, trampling over the Constitution. They’re just, it’s just almost abhorrent and unconscionable, some of the actions that they’re taking in Minneapolis,” said Rep. Garcia.
She is aware of federal law that designates such things as our borders, who is allowed to be in the U.S., and so forth? Probably not
Rep. Garcia’s legislation would repeal a key section of the Immigration Act. Garcia described it as the part that gives the federal government authority to mandate to cities what to do on immigration.
Passing it could, in theory, also allow cities to ignore Senate Bill 4 which Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law in 2017. SB 4 requires county sheriffs to honor ICE detainers and prohibits local cities from passing ordinances that forbid police officers from asking about a person’s immigration status during a lawful detention or arrest.
Los Federales have authority regardless, per the Constitution. Local police cannot ignore things like bank robbery and kidnapping, or any other federal crimes. Democrats are just wacko for illegals. They won’t actually take them in and shelter them, of course. This legislation will go nowhere, it just whips up the unhinged base.
Democrats like Garcia are hoping the immigration enforcement fight will carry into the November general election.
She compared the deaths of two people who got into confrontations with federal agents recently in Minneapolis to the Kent State shootings in 1970.
In the interview, Rep. Garcia did not talk about the murder of Jocelyn Nungaray. The 12-year-old Houston resident was allegedly killed in 2024 by two undocumented immigrants who were caught and later released into Texas by officials with the Biden Administration.
Surprise.
This is all for show. Even if Congress passed it, President Trump would veto it.