We don't have any such law, and Perry did NOT push any anti-illegal immigration legislation during this last session. I followed the Texas Tea Party emails about this all during the last legislative session.
In fact, late in the session, nearly EVERY Texas Tea Party signed on to a letter to the Governor, expressly condemning him for failing to provide leadership on this most critical issue.
I didn’t see the debate and just got home. Obviously it sucked since no-one is talking about it?
I googled Gov Perry,illegal immigration and found several different articals on this. Here is another one.
Perry adds immigration issues to special session
Posted: Jun 07, 2011 1:38 PM PDT
By CHRIS TOMLINSON Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Rick Perry added immigration legislation to the special session’s agenda on Tuesday, including a measure that would REMOVE local law enforcement agencies’ ability to make immigration violations a lower priority.
I’m just going by memory here, but didn’t the Sanctuary Cities Bill that Perry brought to the Special Session in Austin die on June 23rd?
IIRC, there were some tea party members who were pushing for a 2nd Special Session..keep calling a Special Session until the Sanctuary Cities bill is passed.
Perry did not call a 2nd Special Session because of the cost of calling yet another Special Session of the TX legislature. I was thinking the tab for the first one was something like 1.23 million or some amount, but this is just from memory, so that amount may be off.
I realize some Tea Partiers were of the Opinion that Perry could just keep calling Special Session after Special Session until it was passed, but what would keep Strauss, the Rino Speaker of the House from making sure it died a third time. I mean it was DOA in the regular session, and the special session, right? did Some people think the third time would be the Charm?