Lawmakers in Republican-controlled states who support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policies are pushing increasingly restrictive measures in their state legislatures that could reshape immigration enforcement and further restrain the lives of migrants, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

This wave of proposed laws and policies in so many GOP-controlled states challenges long-established legal precedents ensuring undocumented immigrants have access to state legal, medical and education services.

Texas is leading the way, with legislators in Austin pursuing a number of measures — including fingerprinting undocumented migrant children, barring undocumented migrants from receiving taxpayer-funded legal aid, creating a Texas Border Protection Unit and giving state law enforcement the power to deport migrants stopped near the border.

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