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Houston Chronicle compares people crossing border to Mary and Joseph

Painted porcelain figures wearing red and green robes, one female and one male, in front of a baby doll and a dog.
Figures depicting Jesus, Mary and Joseph at the Del Carmen Alto Museum in Quito, Ecuador, on 14 December 2023. Photograph: Cristina Vega Rhor/AFP/Getty Images

A stinging Christmas opinion issued by the editorial board of the Houston Chronicle newspaper asks Texas’s hard-right Republican leader: “How would governor Greg Abbott treat Mary and Joseph at the border?”

The leading media outlet in the Democratic-voting city published an editorial article on Christmas Eve and posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Christmas Day protesting at the red state’s latest crackdown on people seeking refuge by crossing the US-Mexico border without authorization.

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