Overview

• 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.