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Armando Walle didn’t realize he was being recorded. The Democratic state representative from Houston was frustrated. Republican members of the Texas House had put forward a bill that would empower police officers to apprehend, arrest, or send back migrants who cross the border illegally. As Republicans moved to halt additional amendments on the matter, Walle went to confront state representative Cody Harris, of Palestine, who had filed the motion to do so. His colleagues, he said, were attempting to pass a contentious bill without having to fully defend it. But it wasn’t just the single late-night motion that prompted Walle’s confrontation. Rather, he said, it was a compounding effort by the Lege’s Republicans throughout his nearly sixteen years at the Capitol to pass anti-immigration laws in…

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