Thursday, October 13th news conference held as a follow-up to the&lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.voicesempower.com/texas-tea-party-conference-videos-on-illegal-immigration-the-media-wont-show-you/">http://www.voicesempower.com/texas-tea-party-conference-videos-on-illegal-immigration-the-media-wont-show-you/</a>" rel="noreferrer nofollow"&gt;September 19th news conference where coalition members delivered letters representing thousands of Texans to Governor Perry’s office&lt;/a&gt;. The letters called on the Governor to act in the wake of the legislature’s failure to pass a ban on sanctuary cites in both houses during the 82nd Legislature’s special session. A ban on sanctuary cities was one of Governor Perry’s own “emergency” legislative items. [Note: TX House passed the ban on sanctuary cities during the regular session. The TX Senate passed it during the special session.]Please see JoAnn Fleming article:<strong></strong><strong>Photo is Licensed under a creative commons share-alike. Use freely but give attribution and link to Alice Linahan, &lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.voicesempower.com/">http://www.voicesempower.com/</a>" rel="noreferrer nofollow"&gt;Voices Empower,&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.voicesempower.com/">http://www.voicesempower.com/</a>" rel="noreferrer nofollow"&gt;Leader in Clear. Concise. Communication."&lt;/a&gt; </strong><strong>&lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.voicesempower.com/conservative-speakers/">http://www.voicesempower.com/conservative-speakers/</a>" rel="noreferrer nofollow"&gt;Alice Linahan, Managing Director&lt;/a&gt;</strong>
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/resolutemediagroup/6242268741/">Sanctuary Cities Press Conference- JoAnn Fleming</a>