Greg Abbott is hopping on the “tell me you’re a racist without telling me you’re a racist” trend with his support for a new bill that restricts certain foreign ownership of Texas lands. Introduced by State Senator Lois Kolkhorst, Senate Bill 147 aims to prohibit citizens, businesses, or entities from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia from making land purchases in Texas. While the bill is still going through the legal process of becoming legislation, Gov. Abbott has indicated his intentions to sign the bill should it come to him, adding that this goal is to stop “countries that are hostile to the interest of the United States” from buying up parcels of Texas.
The bill allegedly roots from SB 2116 from the 2021 Texas Legislature, which prevents those same four countries from entering into contracts or agreements in connection to critical infrastructure in Texas, KWHI reported. Kolkhorst questioned why people are so critical of this new bill when that bill passed unanimously; according to her, other states have some form of restriction on foreign national land ownership, too.
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