Cole Wilson has worked as a historian with the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History and as a policy analyst with a Texas lobby firm. He is currently as a freelance writer, specializing in historical immigration, higher education in modern America and historical Texas politics. His views don't reflect those of past and present employers.
No other governor in modern Texas history has had the same hardline stance on refugee resettlement as Gov. Greg Abbott. But one other dealt with a refugee crisis as polarizing and tumultuous: Bill Clements.
