Texas House Republican Matt Rinaldi called ICE on hundreds of peaceful demonstrators who were protesting the state’s racist, anti-immigrant “show me your papers” legislation, telling House Democrats, “fuck them, I called ICE.” According to the Observer, Rinaldi also threatened to “put a bullet” in a colleague’s head after sparking a full-on screaming match with other legislators on the House floor and claiming he was physically threatened. But according to one legislator, “no assault occurred.”
Rinaldi did confirm in a Facebook post that he called ICE, ironically backing up what protesters have been saying all along—“show me your papers” isn’t at all about community safety, but instead about racism directed at Latinos and immigrants. ”The true intentions of SB4 came to light today on the House floor,” said state Rep. Ramon Romero. “Matt Rinaldi looked into a House gallery full of Americans exercising their first amendment rights against SB4—Americans of all ages and ethnicity—and he only saw ‘illegals’’:
Earlier, at the beginning of the incident, Rinaldi told Romero on the House floor that the hundreds of protesters who were chanting in the gallery were a “disgrace,” Romero told the Observer.
Romero said that prompted Representative Cesar Blanco to tell Rinaldi that Italian immigrants “are just like us,” and Rinaldi responded, “Yeah, but we love our country.”“Fuck them, I called ICE,” Rinaldi said, according to Romero.
“He saw a bunch of people who look Latino, and he assumed they were undocumented,” Rep. Romero said. “So how can he say SB4 won’t lead to racial profiling?”
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