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Posted: 2019-08-14T23:15:19Z | Updated: 2019-08-15T16:18:21Z

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is responding to the recent mass shooting that targeted Hispanics by creating a domestic terrorism task force stacked with officials who have pushed for policies to crack down on immigration.

The task force, announced Wednesday, aims to ramp up monitoring of the states white nationalist groups. But Texas is a majority-minority state and only two of the committees 15 named members appear to be people of color.

The gunman who killed 22 people and injured two dozen more in El Paso earlier this month carried out the attack after reportedly writing a screed blaming Mexican migrants for carrying out an invasion of Texas, and calling upon others to imitate his actions. He could face domestic terrorism charges, as well as the death penalty in Texas.