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2. ANNnnd, another map:
Sat Jan 12, 2019, 07:45 PM
Jan 2019

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https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/conservative-hosts-push-to-support-border-wall-may-have-revealed-inconvenient-truth/
Conservative Host’s Push to Support Border Wall May Have Revealed Inconvenient Truth

.... In making his plea for conservative solidarity with Trump’s government shutdown-fueled wall push, however, Erickson appears to have revealed an inconvenient truth about how Americans who live on and near the U.S.-Mexico border actually feel about the alleged border crisis and President Trump’s would-be steel solution. ....

Border-dwelling and border-adjacent Americans being fairly nonplussed by the alleged border crisis has been observed before.

Texas ranchers have long dismissed any talk of a border crisis allegedly caused by undocumented immigrants or their families and have been mostly unfazed by all the “border crisis” rhetoric emanating from the White House.

The mayor of Brownsville, Texas–one of the largest cities athwart the U.S.-Mexico border–was similarly dismissive of the claims about immigrants and immigration coming from Washington, D.C. Last summer Mayor Tony Martinez said:

There is not a crisis in the city of Brownsville with regards to safety and security. There’s no gunfire. Most of the people that are migrating are from Central America. It’s not like they’re coming over here to try to take anybody’s job. They’re trying to just save their own lives. We’re doing fine, quite frankly.
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