“GOV. PERRY needs to FIRMLY tell our Muslim President that TEXAS WILL NOT be participating in his little relocation program of BIO-WEAPONS.”


– Rebecca Forest, Council Member Don Zimmerman’s nominee to the city’s Commission on Immigrant Affairs, in an Aug. 2, 2014, Facebook post, on Central American refugees.

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