A group of legal advocacy, immigrant rights, and faith-based organizations across Texas and New Mexico are urging the Department of Justice to step in and immediately halt SB 4’s inherent discrimination from moving forward.

Several media outlets have reported that the Biden administration is willing to curtail life-saving protections to people fleeing persecution, as well as expand the use of rapid deportation proceedings for those already in the United States, in exchange for emergency foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel.

This week, the Texas House passed SB 4, an anti-immigrant bill championed by Governor Abbott that will have detrimental effects on communities across the state.

Last Thursday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a privileged resolution to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas relying on language associated with the great replacement conspiracy theory. In her remarks on the House floor for the introduction of this resolution, Rep. Greene frequently used dangerous invasion rhetoric.

The elevation of Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) to the Speaker of the House is concerning, considering his past promotion of the white nationalist and antisemitic great replacement theory. Now in the job, it is critically important that Speaker Johnson repudiate these beliefs and condemn in the strongest terms any form of antisemitism, racism, and bigotry.