Texas Legislature: State Rep and State Capitol

texas legislature: Matt Rinaldi told Democrats he called U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents about demonstrators in the gallery holding signs that read I am illegal and here to stay, according to Metro News. Hundreds of immigrant-rights activists many of whom were Hispanic had jammed the state capitol on the final day before the Texas Legislature adjourned until 2019. Tensions erupted on the floor of the Texas House of Representatives on Monday when Republican state Rep. Some came from as far as Arizona to protest a sanctuary city crackdown that will allow police starting September to ask people during routine stops whether they're in the U.S. legally. Poncho Nevarez did not deny pushing Rinaldi, who wrote on Facebook that he told Nevarez after being threatened that I would shoot him in self- defence . Nevarez said he was sick of the attitudes toward Hispanics in the Legislature and was taking a stand. Democratic state Rep. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.