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KTSM News – Perez: GOP redistricting plans equate to ‘racial engineering’

Posted on August 1, 2025

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — State Rep. Vince Perez, D-El Paso, says Republican plans to do a mid-decade redistricting on congressional districts in Texas amount to the “most overt racial engineering Texas has experienced since the end of the Civil War.”

Perez said on Friday, Aug. 1, that Republicans are intentionally reducing the value of Hispanic votes to about one-third and Black votes to about one-fifth the value of white votes.

Perez will host two public community listening sessions on redistricting this weekend: at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug 2 at the Valle Bajo Community Center and Library, 7380 Alameda Ave., and 12:30 p.m. that same day at the Pat O’Rourke Recreation Center, 901 N. Virginia St.

“The redistricting proposal unveiled by Texas Republicans represents the most overt racial engineering Texas has experienced since the end of the Civil War. Under this plan, Republicans are deliberately elevating one racial group’s political power at the expense of others. Although Latinos and Anglos each comprise roughly 40% of Texas’ population, the new congressional boundaries mirror segregationist-era tactics, disproportionately amplifying Anglo representation to nearly double their population share,” Perez said in a detailed statement sent to the media.

Perez said that the map proposed by Republicans would result in white Texans receiving
one congressional representative for every 445,000 white residents, while Hispanic Texans
receive just one representative for every 1.4 million Hispanic residents.

This structure makes an Anglo resident’s congressional representation more than three times greater than that of a Hispanic resident, Perez said.

“Black Texans fare even worse under the proposed map, with only one congressional
representative for every 2 million Black residents, meaning an Anglo vote in Texas carries more
than four times the political weight of a Black resident’s vote,” Perez said.

Michael Aboud, chairman of the El Paso County Republican Party, said the current congressional map is gerrymandered in Democrats’ favor and that anytime Democrats don’t like a proposal or initiative, they “pull out the race card.”

“Well, it’s not working because many of the people the Democrats’ racist behavior is meant to target have come to realize that the Democrat Party has left them and no longer pretends to consider who they are or how they can best be served. If you will take a look at this current congressional map of Texas, it is easy to see the excessive gerrymandering of a large percentage of those districts.

“Since this illegally drawn map benefits the Democrats, they are happy to keep it, and don’t care how it hurts the people of Texas regardless of anyone’s ethnicity. Of course, the Democrats don’t want to admit they worked hard to get this current map and had the sole intent of their party keeping more congressional seats than they should have, given the current voting trends happening in Texas and across the county,” Aboud continued.

Aboud said El Paso County’s main congressional district is “drawn to help the Democrat Party hold on to a seat in Congress.”

“When political districts are drawn to help a politician, that politician and political party start to ignore the people they are supposed to be representing. Currently the El Paso office holders act as if they only represent part of the populace, and that the people who support them will blindly follow along like sheep no matter how bad their policies get,” Aboud added.

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