How Trump’s Anti-Immigration Plans Could Take Center Stage in Texas

For more than a year, President-elect Donald Trump has pledged a vast immigration crackdown that includes ending birthright citizenship, reviving border policies from his first time in office, and deporting millions of people through raids and detainment camps.Perhaps no state is in a better position to help him than Texas. And no state might feel the impacts of such initiatives as much as Texas.About 11 percent of immigrants in the United States, five million, live in Texas. The state is home to an estimated 1.6 million undocumented people—the second-most in the country after California. It is also led by Republican elected officials who are politically in lockstep with Trump.When Trump left office in 2021, Governor Greg Abbott surged resources to the state’s 1,254-mile border with…

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