Madam Speaker. officials recently participating in a Texas hurricane evacuation drill were shocked to learn that the Border Patrol. CBP. planned to check the citizenship or immigration status of the people that they were helping to evacuate. Such a policy is fraught with problems. One car with a flat tire can back up an evacuation for hundreds of miles. Just think about how disruptive and dangerous immigration checkpoints would be. and how many people would remain in harms way for fear of arrest. The outrage in Texas. and across the country. was instantaneous. Other law enforcement agencies. State officials. and the press condemned the announcement. and DHS started backpedaling.
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