I’m just surprised that a bill like that is even on a ballot in TX...”
Texas has a bunch of sanctuary cities - Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin. Ten years ago it wouldn’t have made it to the ballot. Glad I moved to the suburbs.
They play games with the city limits to ensure a liberal majority. In this case, it bit them because the Amish community voted heavily against HERO. They suspected this was going to happen when polls a few days before the election had 18% saying they were “undecided”. “undecided” translates to not wanting to be browbeat for voting the “wrong” way on something.
If you add the 5% padding liberals normally get in polls plus the 18%, you come very close to the margin that HERO is losing by.