When the two presidents used the Texas-Mexico boundary as a backdrop for the national immigration fight, residents felt they were left out of the conversation.
Pedestrians walk through downtown Brownsville early Feb. 29, 2024. President Joe Biden visited the border city on Thursday and former President Donald Trump made an appearance in Eagle Pass, another Texas town on the border with Mexico.BROWNSVILLE — Wide blades of sugar cane, verdant after late winter rains, stretch in neat rows toward the horizon in this swath of the Rio Grande Valley.
Three hundred miles northwest in Eagle Pass, former and perhaps future President Donald Trump stuck to a familiar script in which he characterized migrants as criminals overrunning the country. Trump praised Gov.’s strict border security efforts, including a state law empowering police to arrest migrants who cross the border illegally that a
In Eagle Pass, Trump was flanked by Abbott, who made a national name for himself by transporting migrants to Democrat-led cities outside Texas and using state National Guard troops in aover border security. Trump and Abbott did not speak about the impacts increased border enforcement presence has had in the town.. He praised the hardworking men and women of Customs and Border Protection. But he said nothing about the water crisis affecting farms.
The co-op’s behemoth mill in Santa Rosa produced less than 500,000 tons of sugar in the most recent season, a 75% decline over a peak six years ago. CEO Sean Brashear blames the federal government for not forcing Mexico to pay its water debt, a tab he accused the country of running up with unsustainable use.
Rey Felix III, 22, said his father encouraged him to work hard at the mill, and he regularly logged 80-hour weeks. Now he’s unsure what he will do next, as there are few comparable jobs available locally. He recently obtained a security clearance necessary to work on offshore oil rigs. He said successive federal administrations, not just Biden’s, are at fault for letting the water crisis get this bad. Lara said he is frustrated that no matter whom the sugar growers lobbied in Washington, they could not get the State Department to take a more aggressive approach with Mexico.
The dramatic increase in calls has coincided with the transformation of Eagle Pass into the epicenter of the state and national immigration debate. Texas has poured billions into the governor’s Martha Long traveled with her children from nearby Del Rio, where Trump flew in. She waited two hours to see the GOP leader, but Trump and Abbott skipped the crowded streets for a more covert entrance to the park, which is inaccessible to the public. Long was disappointed, but unbothered., officials say migrants have been dissuaded from crossing near downtown. Instead, migrants cross upstream or downstream of the park, which still falls within Fire Chief Manuel Mello’s jurisdiction.
Mello testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee last month to discuss the impact of border crossings on the city’s social services. He doesn’t put the blame squarely on Biden, rather the federal government as a whole, which he said has a responsibility to take action on immigration.
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