Joaquin Castro
Initially elected to the Texas House in 2002, Joaquin Castro initially won election to the U.S. House in November 2012.
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“Title 42 and other Trump-era holdovers are forcing migrants into dangerous, overcrowded conditions in Mexico.”
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"Most people in my home state of Texas disagree with the president building a wall across our border."
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"Ending (Temporary Protected Status) and deporting legal workers would cost the United States ~$164 billion in GDP over a decade."
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Says the director of an anti-abortion group receiving a Texas grant to provide women’s health services "believes HIV can be spread through the sewer system."
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Says "Donald Trump has defended" World War II internment camps.
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"@realDonaldTrump is coming to San Antonio, which is 60% Mexican-AMERICAN."
With only 67 bills or so passed into law, "2013 was the least productive year in congressional history since we’ve been keeping record."
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Joaquin Castro: Texas has gone the longest of all states not electing a Democrat to statewide office
Texas is "the state that has now gone the longest without electing a Democrat statewide."
"43,000 people are going to be kicked out of nursing homes or denied nursing home entrance" if the Texas House version of the state budget…