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Mark Z. Barabak

Mark Z. Barabak: Texas vs. California: Mean tweets, migrant dumping and the 'race to the bottom'

Name-calling. Mean tweets. A governor's quick-draw veto pen.

What does any of that have to do with the latest batch of migrants swept up in a red state and deposited in California?

The shipment arrived last week courtesy of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Forty-two people — and let's not forget they're people — arrived in downtown Los Angeles, presumably famished as well as frightened after a 23-hour bus ride with starvation rations.

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