The Border Is a Top Campaign Issue. It’s Also Their Home.
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- This year, Democrats and Republicans are both fighting to convince voters that their party alone can fix what both parties say is a big problem: the Southern border.
And public sentiment on the issue is shifting. According to Gallup, 55 percent of Americans want to curb immigration, the highest recorded total since 2001.
With that in mind, we wanted to talk with people who actually live and work near the border. So we traveled to El Paso, with Jazmine Ulloa, a Times politics reporter who grew up there.
On this week’s show, a conversation on the border about the border, and what people there make of the shifting politics in the battle over their backyard.
On today’s episode:
Jazmine Ulloa (www.nytimes.co...) , a national politics reporter for The New York Times
First it was Mexicans now it is Haitians. Trump and Vance always need to point at someone. You could be next.
It's astonishing that there are folks who STILL believe Trump is a successful businessman
Astonishing that they consider him presidential material at all.
Everything’s just viiiiibes man… lol
Its an interesting phenomena, many immigrants and children of immigrants would never consider moving to live in another country. There is also a double standard among many of these Mexican Americans. In many of their ways of thinking a white American moving to Latin America is deemed interesting. Many also view Hispanic Americans moving to Latin America as being a traitor and they automatically ask why, when so many are trying to get to the US. Having a second citizenship or residency in another country is a great plan B. "Go where you are treated best". Because you are Hispanic does not mean you are obligated to stay in the US, even if you are not happy.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this podcast. I live in El Paso, and I have people online from other areas of the country trying to tell ME what the border is like constantly! I feel so much safer living here than I did in rural East Texas where everyone was paranoid and armed to the teeth. Yes, record numbers of asylum seekers and immigrants can strain communities and charitable organizations, but our city is still very safe and peaceful. The 2019 Walmart shooter doubled our annual murder rate in one day.
The sad thing and all of this is that immigration did not need to be turned into such an issue. I come from California where I grew up near the fields that migrant workers would work in throughout the season at work they make their money they go home some state somewhere asked to stay, as they moved up on the farm, they went from kicker to supervisor to farmhand to the farmer, sponsoring them and their family because he needed regular consistent workers and someone to manage them. I saw this growing up.. I agree with Jasmine that immigration is changed. I don’t know if it’s for the better or the worse, but I do believe that there is a sense of entitlement amongst some people and then there is a sense of ignorance amongst the wider American public and almost willful ignorance until someone can weapon, the issue and throw it in their face where then of course we react and make the worst choice of no choices offered. I’m all four for security. I’m all four knowing exactly who’s coming across the border in both directions I am not for the bleeding heart. Welcome to caravans in from wherever the hell they came from but I’m also not for completely turning them away, however that again is another one of these, false choices that we’ve put ourselves in a position to have to make. I understand what vice president Harris did by having to go to those countries and find the reasons for this migration. Everybody knows what the reasons are, but I understand it was a part of the political theater that needed to take place, most of it has been resolved not all of it but most of it. The problem now is at Americans, overall have seemed to start to adopt a cynical idea of what the greatness of the United States is worsened by political players, demonizing immigration with threats of the great other coming to take their whatever., I would like to say that I hope if Donald Trump wins this next election everyone every American compromised their values their internal morality to vote for him. I hope you get exactly what you deserve.. I completely understand what Jasmine is getting at in regard to certain Latinos that feel the new wave of migrants are just getting things handed. They are stop. It already stopped, but this is just a face like all the other phase that came before that nobody was properly prepared to deal with, but we should be thankful. United States of America should be thankful that people are willing to die to get to this great nation to be part of the greatest country on the face of this earth are willing to suffer whatever it takes to be part of us if we want to be choosy fine choosyat the same time, we should not allow anyone to bang on our door and say let me in