Rep. Gene Wu, D-Houston, held a press conference along with several Texas Democrats decried a bill filed by Sen. Lois Kolkhorst as racist for seeking to ban...
Rep. Gene Wu, D-Houston, stands inside the Texas Capitol on Wednesday for a press conference against a Senate bill that has been filed that would prohibit citizens from China and 3 other countries from buying land in Texas.AUSTIN — Rep. Gene Wu, D-Houston, stood inside the Texas Capitol holding a photo of the childhood home he grew up in Houston after emigrating from China.
Wu was among several Democratic lawmakers who decried the bill as racist Wednesday and said it’s a painful reminder of similar legislation that was passed by Congress more than a century ago.“This is especially painful for the Asian American community because we have been down this road before,” Wu said. “It is extremely disappointing and extremely painful for the Asian community to see this continue to happen.
“It doesn’t impact at all people who either are citizens or intend to be citizens of the United States,” Abbott said. “There are people who emigrate lawfully, from China, and it would not impact them at all.”
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