Texas state Rep. Gene Wu, along with more than a dozen fellow Democratic lawmakers, has decried state legislation proposed by a GOP lawmaker that would ban the sale of land to Chinese citizens, governments, and other entities.
“I am here in defense of the ‘American dream’,” Wu told reporters during a press conference on Wednesday at the Texas Capitol. “This is what we are all here to protect.”
The China-born Houston Democrat held a photo of the Houston home where he grew up, adding that he would not be here if SB 147 were law. His family immigrated to the United States in the 1980s….