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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Kayla Guo

At CPAC, Texas Railroad Commissioner candidate Bo French calls for deportation of 100 million people

Bo French, a Republican candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner, on Friday said Republicans should more openly embrace Islamophobia and called on the U.S. to deport 100 million people, nearly a third of the country’s population.

French, a former Tarrant County GOP chair who has previously come under fire by his own party for his repeated use of slurs on social media, made the comments at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Grapevine during a panel titled, “Don’t Sharia My Texas.”

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