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But that was the least of it. Left largely unreported in the national press is that hundreds of thousands of Latino voters in rural Texas — the sons and daughters of early legal migration — also felt repulsed by the 2019 mass-migration crisis during which nearly one million illegal Central Americans swamped the border as Democratic voices encouraged it, litigated efforts to staunch the tide, and promised open gates under a Biden administration.
“The immigration thing was another reason. A lot of our community from Mexico came here legally. Others were born here in Texas,” said Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez, a lifelong Democrat who stuck to his own party and won a fourth term in Val Verde County, which turned red around him for the first time in decades.
“The general feeling is that if someone comes to the U.S., they need to do it legally. I think that was probably a good majority of the Republican vote, yes.”
David Adams
Article URL : https://cnsnews.com/commentary/todd-bensman/latinos-south-texas-voted-against-illegal-immigration-and-cbp-demonization