AUSTIN — Congratulations, Greg Abbott. You are now officially the sitting governor with the most bigoted, racist record in the country.

That is no small achievement, sir. And while I don't profess to know what's actually in your heart, your policies and track record as a politician are clear. As we wrap up another legislative session, it's useful to reflect on your tenure. During your administration, Texas will have adopted or defended laws that are anti-Mexican, anti-Hispanic, anti-black and oh-so-slyly anti-LGBT.

And under your watch, Texas has steadily slipped among states in a variety of economic rankings. You, Mr. Abbott, make George W. Bush and Rick Perry look like history's giants.

It's all been simmering for a while, actually, but it's finally come to a boil with your so-called crackdown on so-called sanctuary cities, an issue invented of whole cloth to demonstrate your anti-Mexican credentials without using the word Mexican. You called it an emergency so the legislature would actually allow local police to ask people their citizenship status, a law that ​threatens sheriffs, cops, mayors and bureaucrats ​with jail ​unless they do more than federal law requires. You made the whole thing up in a way that would make Donald Trump proud.

But there is was no emergency. Heck, there wasn't even a problem.

Between 2014 and 2016, local Texas jails declined exactly 18 requests, without warrants, from immigration authorities to hold prisoners whose cases had already been resolved.

That's 18 out of more than 58,000 requests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which didn't even bother to pick up almost 23,000 of the people they asked to be detained. And that's only in Texas, according to a massive data set compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.

At this point, I would love to quote you, governor, but I think it's important not to repeat untruths. However, you did claim that your threats to yank state funding and lock up local officials would have prevented the Williamson County crime spree of Silvestre Franco-Luviano, who went by the false identify of Juan Rios. Yet as Brandi Grissom politely and masterfully pointed out in The News, the federal government had already deported Franco-Luviano three times. Local jails had nothing to do with it; ICE let him back into the country.

Wittingly or not, governor, you're becoming Donald Trump: A politician of no known conviction other than to his own career.

The entire sanctuary cities outcry is a lie. Local cops have actually increased their cooperation with the federal government, even when ICE didn't bother getting a warrant, according to the Syracuse data. Across the country, just 2 percent of requests — two — were refused in the first two months of last year. Before that, just 6 percent were. That's out of nearly a quarter-million requests, without a warrant, mind you, from 2014 to 2016.

Now, here is the kicker: Most of the time, ICE didn't even bother picking up the people it wanted detained. In 55 percent of those quarter-million requests, the feds never came for the person they wanted at the jail.

And the place where they didn't show up the most? Indiana. While Mike Pence was governor, according to the Syracuse data.

In Texas, the feds didn't bother to retrieve people in nearly 40 percent of all cases though the feds might — or might not — have ever apprehended them once they left jail​. ​So ​first, immigration authorities didn't get warrants from a judge. And then they don't even make the pick-up. And now Texas is going to punish counties and jail local cops, sheriffs and politicians for not cooperating?

Among the handful of warrantless federal detention requests not honored here this year? Bastrop County reported one domestic violence charge, an unspecified liquor charge and an indecent exposure case. Big, bad Travis County and Austin reported several assault charges and a slew of drunken driving and drug possession charges. And that's according to Trump's own Justice Department, which also notes that Travis County honors any federal request with a warrant and holds an undocumented immigrant charged or convicted of capital or first-degree murder, aggravated assault or human smuggling.

You may not have solved a problem here, but you did score points with a tiny number of constituents who voted for you (2.8 million in a state with more than five times that many registered voters,) a sliver of which don't like Mexicans, and an even tinier number who are rich donors and love the idea that you'd like to rewrite the Constitution with your quirky little convention idea.

Exhibit B, after the sanctuary cities myth, is the voter fraud myth. For years, you defended both the mapping of congressional districts and the state's demand for a state identification to vote. You hilariously claimed that the law was engineered for partisan advantage and not ethnic or racial discrimination. You also claimed you prosecuted 50 people for voter fraud at the voting booth.

Neither is true. News 21, a project at Arizona State University, figured that there were three cases of people impersonating other people at Texas polls while ​you, governor, defended the law as attorney general. The Brennan Center at New York University concluded about the same. The recent case of Rosa Maria Ortega in Tarrant County would bring that to four. That's 1 in 18 million, according to Politifact, which concluded last year that we could "light a match" to your lies on the subject. Now, federal courts have struck down both the gerrymandering of congressional districts and the voter ID law, but not until after as many as 800,000 eligible voters — most black and Hispanic — had been disenfranchised.

Finally, of course, there is the matter of LGBT rights. After a long, sphinx-like silence, governor, you finally confessed in April, in a tweet of all things, that you're all for your lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, and that bathroom bill of his. You even claimed that requiring people to use the bathroom that corresponds with the gender on their birth certificates is a "growing concern" to everyday Texans.

Which, of course, isn't true. More than 50 percent of Texans said men using women's bathrooms is not a concern, according to a University of Texas-Texas Tribune poll.

Do you have any interest in the business of Texas? Hate isn't just ethically and morally wrong. It's bad for business. The business lobby, namely the Texas Association of Business, has been squarely against this so-called sanctuary cities law.

Immigration is good for the Texas economy, not just its society. Even undocumented immigration, though it puts those immigrants at risk of their health, rights and dignity. Undocumented immigrants don't just build the suburbs and work in the restaurants, they spend almost $700 billion each year and have an output of over $200 billion each year, according to the Perryman Group in Waco. That's nearly $1 trillion, after public expenses for education, such as it is, health care, cops and social services.

All the unemployed in Texas would barely fill half the jobs of the undocumented in Texas. Business has opposed the stupid bathroom bill, too, noting the billions of dollars lost when North Carolina tried it.

Ethics and human decency aside, you're following the path of history's losers. And no, I don't mean Donald Trump. In California in the 1990s, Pete Wilson got behind Proposition 187, cutting off social services to undocumented immigrants, only to see the law ruled unconstitutional, turning the Republican Party into a dead letter there. Arizona followed with its English-only and racial profiling, only to become a pariah to business and to ultimately back off in an expensive settlement.

In Indiana, Pence signed an anti-gay statute under the guise of religious freedom, only to retreat after Arkansas found itself in a similar debacle. Alabama went after undocumented immigrants only to watch its local economies collapse. Then North Carolina jumped into the hate parade with its bathroom bill, only to turn back just weeks ago after losing billions of dollars.

Even the Trump administration has been stopped in court for trying to deny federal funding to so-called sanctuary cities, which no one can legally define anyway. Heck, at this rate, sir, you might even become president yourself.

Richard Parker is the author of Lone Star Nation: How Texas Will Transform America. He lives in Austin and is a frequent columnist for The Dallas Morning News. Twitter: @richardparkertx

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