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Police abuse of migrants passing at Mexican detention centers and highway checkpoints is widespread, often systematic and needs to be addressed with changes to the law, an El Paso advocacy group says.
Opponents say GOP lawmakers want to wrest immigration enforcement away from the federal government.
The Border Network for Human Rights organized a demonstration Wednesday to oppose two bills the group calls "anti-immigrant."
The House State Affairs committee is set to discuss HB 20 on Wednesday. If passed, the controversial legislation would create the Border Protection Unit, which opponents say would encourage vigilante justice on the state’s southern border.
Civil rights organizations plan to rally against several controversial border security bills in the Texas Legislature, including a proposal to allow "vigilante" patrols along the U.S.-Mexico border.