Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:

Officials expected to enforce SB-4 and their observers see it as not only impossible, but rife with ethical and justice-related hazards: https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/texas-sb-4-immigration-18568738.php

SB-4 is a "middle finger" to the United States and its Constitution: https://newrepublic.com/article/177725/texas-immigration-law-federal-government-constitution

New York City is watching closely as immigration policy here directly impacts quality of life there: https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/12/20/state-of-disorder-greg-abbotts-latest-demagoguery-on-migrants/

...While Abbott's providing of free trips to New York may be encouraging more migration: https://nypost.com/2023/12/22/news/us-bound-migrants-pouring-over-texas-border-looking-for-better-life/

...And with the feds held off for now, Texas National Guard troopers are hard at work putting in more razor wire at the border: https://www.wkbn.com/news/exclusive-new-concertina-wire-fencing-being-added-to-south-texas-border/

A children's hospital in Seattle has filed suit to resist orders from Ken Paxton to turn over the records of transgender Texans it has provided transition care: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/21/texas-attorney-general-trans-seattle-childrens/

A new editorial shows how every pregnant person in Texas could easily find themselves in the same situation as Kate Cox: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/columns/2023/12/20/texas-abortion-law-ban-kate-cox-lawsuit-supreme-court-ruling-pregnancy/71936050007/

Gillespie County Republicans have chosen to leave County elections infrastructure behind and hand-count their primary votes in March - an enormous, if not impossible task: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/21/texas-republicans-hand-count-votes-election-2024/

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