EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- Texas state Rep. Vince Perez, D-El Paso, along with four other Democratic colleagues, have arrived in California on Friday, Aug. 8 and will meet with Gov. Gavin Newsom and other California leaders about the redistricting controversy in Texas.

Perez's office said that "Texas Republicans are attempting to pass the most racially discriminatory map Texas has since the Passage of the 1965 Rights Act in an attempt to give President Trump at least five additional Republican seats until the courts overturn their unlawful map."

“These maps are so racially discriminatory that Latino and Black residents have only one-third and one-ffith the value of white residents in Texas," Perez said. "At least 26 of Texas’ 38 congressional districts (70%) were racial engineered to give

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