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https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/conservative-hosts-push-to-support-border-wall-may-have-revealed-inconvenient-truth/
Conservative Hosts Push to Support Border Wall May Have Revealed Inconvenient Truth
.... In making his plea for conservative solidarity with Trumps 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 Trumps 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, Texasone of the largest cities athwart the U.S.-Mexico borderwas 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. Theres no gunfire. Most of the people that are migrating are from Central America. Its not like theyre coming over here to try to take anybodys job. Theyre trying to just save their own lives. Were doing fine, quite frankly.
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