WHYAREWEALLCAPS@fedia.iotopolitics @lemmy.world•Texas migrant nonprofit slams Paxton for trying to shut it down over Trump ‘son of the devil’ post
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1 month agoMost of what he, Abbott, and Patrick do is just political theater and has no real benefit for the people of Texas.
They used that part of the 13th that said “Well, except prisoners, those can be slaves.” Local law enforcement rounded up former slaves on trumped up charges and leased them back to the same plantation owners they were freed from. Only now if they escaped they were “escaped criminals” and they could count on even northern law enforcement returning them. The US is still a pro-slavery country and will be as long as that part of the 13th amendment stands.