Far-Right GOP Sheriff Nominee Knox Clear On Who He Is-Our Job Is To Oppose Him Strongly

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​Above you see a Twitter post by Harris County Republican nominee for Sheriff Mike Knox.

It's a lousy post by a lousy guy. The idea you are for law and order when you are hanging out with Ted Cruz is unlikely. It's no surprise Mr. Knox is hanging out with election denier Cruz. In the most recent legislative session, Mr. Knox testified in front of Senator Paul Bettencourt's election suppression committee to talk about how to make it more difficult to vote.     

What I want to highlight here is Mr. Knox's comment in the Tweet--"...fully flex the new state law tp locally initiate deporting illegal immigrants..."

This matches the clearly-stated intent of national Republicans to initiate mass roundups of migrants across the country.      

Mayor Whitmire has said the City of Houston would not enforce the law. That's fine. But there is little he could do about Harris County enforcing the law or about a Trump administration using local law enforcement in addition to the National Guard to enforce the law.   

The law Mr. Knox is referencing is S.B. 4. 

Here is a Texas Tribune article about S.B 4 & below are excerpts from the article. 

"...makes illegally crossing the border a state crime...give(s) Texas law enforcement authority to arrest undocumented immigrants anywhere in the state......Under the new law, migrants who decline to return immediately to Mexico would serve their sentence, then be transported by police to a port of entry — and they could face a felony charge for refusing to return to Mexico at that point."

Mr. Knox is telling us up front who is he. Shame on us if we don't strongly oppose him in 2024. Shame on local media for not asking tough questions of Mr. Knox about his comfort with election deniers, and his plans to use the resources of the Harris County Sheriff's Department to carry out the cruel Trump/Abbott agenda rather than keeping Harris County safe.         

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