The Beaumont Republican’s foes are trying to paint him as soft on the border, even after last year’s passage of far-reaching laws and record border funding.
Don’t let Mother Nature rain on your parade! Alternative ways to watch solar eclipse during bad weather in HoustonDade Phelan, R-Beaumont, at a press conference at the Capitol on Nov. 4, 2020. Phelan was the first sitting Texas House speaker forced into a runoff for his House seat in more than 50 years.to present “a very innovative solution” to combat the surge in migrants attempting to enter Texas from Mexico — one that would test the limits of states’ roles in immigration enforcement.
Many of Phelan’s Republican allies have faced similar attacks even after voting for the entire slate of border legislation that made it through the Legislature last year. That strategy likely contributed to thein last month’s GOP primary, a trend Phelan and several other incumbents are trying to forestall in the May runoffs..
Phelan has tried to push back through his social media channels, arguing that Covey’s SB 4 criticism means he either “ the truth and still making the choice to lie to HD 21 voters” or “ a basic high-school-civics-level understanding of our legislative process.”that features footage of him surveying the border in a helicopter while a narrator says he “has stepped up to help secure our border.”
Covey’s charge that Phelan once opposed SB 4 derives from a dispute between Phelan and Patrick — the Senate leader — over a key element of the bill: what to do with migrants after they were arrested for “illegal entry.” While the two chambers aligned on most of the bill, the Senate proposed jailing every migrant arrested, to the “extent feasible,” which Phelan said would be too expensive and lead to a “state-funded hospitality program for illegal immigrants.
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