CWAers Rally Against Texas "Show Me Your Papers" Law

CWA Local 6143 Vice President Geronimo Guerra, to right of Texas AFL-CIO Sec.-Treas. Rick Levy, speaking, stood with leaders and activists from AFT, Unite Here, Texas Organizing Project, and MOVE, a community organization, plus elected officials, to rally against racial targeting and profiling in Texas.

In San Antonio, CWA Local 6143 organized and led a rally to stand up against the state legislature's and governor's attack on all residents and people of color. Elected leaders, including the mayors of San Antonio and Austin, and local city council leaders, joined CWAers, union members, and activists from San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Austin, and the lower valley areas to protest SB4, a flawed bill set to take effect in September.

A number of Texas law enforcement officials have raised concerns that the bill would allow state and federal government to control and bypass the authority of local police departments. It also would establish racial targeting and profiling of anyone that law enforcement officers or other citizens wanted to question. Similar legislation passed in Arizona was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2012.