Texas Republicans propose creation of vigilante group to hunt migrants at the border that will have immunity from prosecution

Independent UK

By Graig Graziosi

March 24, 2023

Republican lawmakers in Texas want to create a state security force to patrol the US-Mexico border that critics have characterised as a “vigilante death squad policy.”

Dade Phelan, the Republican speaker of Texas’ House of Representatives, told a meeting of the Texas Public Policy Foundation that he plans to introduce a bill that he says will “make national headlines and change the conversation on border security,” according to The Intercept.

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