.@rossramsey: For Texas voters, immigration "overshadows other issues — winter blackouts and electric grid failures, debates over election fraud and ballot access, handgun regulation, abortion — even when those things top the news." https://t.co/PlZ1iskHpk
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) December 6, 2021
Undocumented immigrants haven’t killed 72,808 Texans during the last two years, like COVID-19 did through Dec. 2. Immigrants haven’t brought that kind of danger to the state in the last 20 years, for that matter.
But fear of an insecure border consistently outweighs the pandemic as a matter of concern in Texas. That persistent worry over immigration is strongest among the state’s Republicans. It overshadows other issues — winter blackouts and electric grid failures, debates over election fraud and ballot access, handgun regulation, abortion — even when those things top the news.
As we end a year of record-setting numbers of people trying to cross from Mexico into Texas, Republican candidates — some of them officeholders — have a potent political issue that plays their way.
Republican voters have chosen immigration and border security as the top issue facing the country for more than a decade.
It is the season of Las Posadas. It is the season when people of goodwill will gather in churches and watch their children and their friends re-enact the Holy Family's journey to Bethlehem, where they find no room for the night, and Mary gives birth among the animals. Maybe in the weeks after they will even remember the Matthean narrative and the flight of the Holy Family to Egypt because Herod issues a decree of death for all children in order to kill the Christchild he doesn't know.
And they'll never make the connection.
The number of undocumented immigrants in detention centers has increased by over 50% since President Joe Biden took office. https://t.co/MNz4FRovKC
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) December 9, 2021
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