\r\nSeveral speakers testified at a Texas state Senate committee hearing on March 2 regarding the proposal."} 5c:{"type":"p","text":"According to Alice Yi, a senior strategy consultant at Asian Texans for Justice, Kolkhorst’s legislation is discriminatory."} 5d:{"type":"p","text":"“It would put all people who look like me, any Asians, into third-class citizenship, because we would have to prove our immigration status and where we come from when we want to purchase any land or a house,” she said during her testimony."} 5e:{"type":"p","text":"Bob Fu, founder of the Christian human rights group China Aid, urged that Senate Bill 147 be passed “without reservation.”"} 5f:{"type":"p","text":"“This bill has nothing to do with race, ethnicity, or even nationality,” he said. “It’s about the core of our national security."} 60:{"type":"p","text":"“The [Chinese] Communist Party has become our No. 1 existential threat to our way of life, to our freedom. We cannot allow the CCP to have a stronghold with land purchases.”"} 61:{"type":"p","text":"Cooper Little, executive director of the Independent Cattlemen’s Association of Texas, also testified in support of Senate Bill 147. He said that without the measure, adversarial countries—and particularly China—could continue to purchase arable lands and property suitable for raising livestock in the state."} 62:{"type":"p","text":"“A continuation of the current pattern of adversarial agricultural land acquisitions will clearly diminish the opportunity for Texans and other well-intended individuals from entering and reentering the business of production agriculture—simply due to the lack of land availability,” he said."} 63:{"type":"p","text":"“Who controls the food supply controls the people, and with that, we respectfully request passage of [Senate Bill] 147.”"} 4c:["$4d","$4e","$4f","$50","$51","$52","$53","$54","$55","$56","$57","$58","$59","$5a","$5b","$5c","$5d","$5e","$5f","$60","$61","$62","$63"] 66:{} 65:{"name":"US","slug":"us","ter

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