The “Old Gray Lady” is shaking her head in disbelief. While she and her countless cronies in and out of America’s mainstream media are of one mind in regard to their craving for open borders and disdain for immigrant restrictions, the NY Times has learned that their America Last sympathies are not shared by many of the Latino residents of the Rio Grande Valley.
In an article posted on the Times website yesterday, Times writer Jennifer Medina wrote:
Trump-era anti-immigrant rhetoric of being tough on the border and building the wall has not . . . struck [South Texan Latino voters] as anti-Hispanic bigotry. Instead, it has drawn them in.
Medina points to the candidacy of Mayra Flores, the wife of a Border Patrol agent and a candidate for Congress. She attended a campaign dinner for Ms. Flores in Brownsville, where “her supporters began with a prayer and the pledge of allegiance to the Texas flag [and] wore wide-brimmed cowboy hats and red MAGA caps.” Flores told the crowd, “We’ve been voting California values, Austin values, but not South Texas values.”
Representative of those South Texas values is Rev. Luis Cabrera, 44, who runs City Church, a small congregation in Harlingen, Texas. Cabrera told Medina:
The people coming [across the border] now seem to be less willing to work and are more dangerous compared to how it used to be. I’m not saying all of them, but trust me, there’s a lot of people who are crossing this border and they don’t care about this country. They want to just commit crime.
Medina concludes that the “gulf between the undocumented Central American migrants crossing the border and the Latino residents of the Valley is deep and wide.” The long-time residents “do not see their views on immigration as hypocritical or anti-Hispanic. Instead, they see themselves as a bulwark for law and order.”
It’s a lot for the ideology-bound Times to process, as they might say, but quite a few Texans, Hispanic and otherwise, are telling them, “Process this!”
For more, see the NY Times.