Physician Dawn Buckingham, Travis County’s newcomer in the Texas Senate, touted her co-authorship of a Senate-approved measure to ban so-called sanctuary city policies statewide by using her home county as an example.
The Republican from Lakeway, elected in 2016 to represent Senate District 24, said in a Feb. 8, 2017, email blast: “I believe in a safe Travis County and a safe Texas, and actions recently taken by the Travis County Sheriff’s Office have endangered our community and our state.”
Buckingham’s email continued: “Hundreds of illegal immigrants subject to detainers were released in the last week since the new sanctuary policy was adopted by the Travis County Sheriff’s Office, and I am proud the Senate has acted quickly in response.”
Is that a fact? Gardner Selby of the PolitiFact Texas fact-checking team has the answer.
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