LULAC Issues National Alert Over Potential Violence Due to Texas Governor's Immigration Rhetoric

The alert comes amid ongoing litigation between Governor Gregg Abbott and the federal government over immigration policies, and ahead of a planned convoy to the U.S. southern border.

• Latino civil rights organization, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), has issued a national alert warning that Texas Governor Gregg Abbott's immigration rhetoric could incite violence, including mass murder.
• The alert, only the second in LULAC's nearly 100-year history, warns members to be on alert for 'armed out-of-state extremists with a hate agenda' amid plans of a convoy to descend upon the U.S. southern border on Saturday.
• LULAC's warning comes amid ongoing litigation between Abbott and the federal government over immigration, with Abbott employing controversial moves in retaliation against the White House's immigration policies.
• Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Biden administration may remove the miles of razor wire Texas has installed along its border since Abbott launched his anti-immigration Operation Lone Star in March 2021.
• A group called the 'Take Our Border Back Convoy' plans to descend upon Eagle Pass on Saturday, seemingly in support of Abbott.

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