Read the media demonization of the citizenship question on the US Census.....you can see that they wanted to count them in population to push their representation in US House.
NY Slimes article Jun 27, 2019 — An attack on immigrants or a need to protect minority voters?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/citizenship-question-census.html
So while we cheered on Abbot for sending illegals to sanctuary cities, all he was doing was helping the democrats boost their numbers.
https://www.census.gov/acs/www/about/why-we-ask-each-question/citizenship/
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/its-final-no-citizenship-question-on-2020-census
“This amnesty will give citizenship to only 1.1-1.3 million illegal aliens. We will secure the borders henceforth. We well never again bring forward another Amnesty Bill like this” Ted Kennedy, 1986 Amnesty bill (signed into law by Reagan).
https://justfacts.votesmart.org/public-statement/262303/kennedy-on-86-amnesty