Texas Border Towns Voted For Trump, Now They Face Bankruptcy - The Logical Leftist

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14. I'm not surprised those towns are in dire straights

I lived in Texas most of my life and in south central Texas for the last couple of decades. What a lot of people don’t know is that before the Republicans/right wing (reactionaries) started their border hysteria, a LOT OF Mexican nationals would cross the US border not to “smuggle drugs”, not to “take American jobs,” but to go shopping. In fact, business used to be so brisk that tour companies would charter busses to take their Mexican clients from the border up to outlet shopping malls in San Antonio and other outlying areas to assist them on their shopping sprees.

That’s largely gone now. Can anyone guess why those shoppers choose not to cross borders and face ICE’s humiliation and abuse?

I’m sure most progressives and moderates can, but not the dumb-@$$s who’ve chosen to let right-wing think tanks and highly-paid liars working for right-wing propaganda organs do their thinking for them.

Think about this the next time some fool spouts BS about the Republican Party being the friend of small business.