House Bill 4081 (2023) proposes that the commissioners court of a county may submit a request to the Texas Judicial Council for reimbursement of all or part of the salary paid to an associate judge. This would apply to visiting judges who have been appointed for cases constituting the offense of criminal trespass by an illegal alien. The reimbursement would be from money appropriated to the council for the purposes of border security.
House Bill 7 Testimony Before the Texas Senate Committee on Border Security
My name is Carine Martinez, and I am campaign director for Secure & Sovereign Texas at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a nonprofit and nonpartisan research institution based in Austin, Texas. Thank you for the opportunity to testify in support of House Bill 7. The humanitarian crisis going on at the border is on everyone’s...