{"id":12870,"date":"2025-07-30T08:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=12870"},"modified":"2025-08-03T08:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T15:04:03","slug":"oh-im-very-happy-latinos-living-along-southern-border-rave-over-trumps-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/oh-im-very-happy-latinos-living-along-southern-border-rave-over-trumps-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Oh, I\u2019m Very Happy\u2019: Latinos Living Along Southern Border Rave Over Trump\u2019s Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A good write up I’m sure not being covered by the megacorp propaganda news. And to hear a hispanic American that lives on the border actually tell you about the situation in his own words, check out this Nick Johnson YouTube video<\/a> queued up to the interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/07\/30\/border-latinos-happy-with-donald-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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By Jason Hopkins, Immigration Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many Hispanic Americans living along the U.S.-Mexico border are voicing strong support for President Donald Trump\u2019s handling of immigration enforcement, adding that they got exactly what they voted for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 2024 presidential election, Trump managed to flip<\/a> several border counties that had not voted for a Republican president in decades, and in one particular case, for more than a century. President Joe Biden\u2019s mismanagement of the border was cited by members of these Latino communities as one of the defining reasons for this change, and Trump\u2019s historic crackdown on illegal immigration has kept them satisfied with their choice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOh, I\u2019m very happy,\u201d Perla Bazan, a lifelong resident of Starr County, Texas, told the Daily Caller News Foundation about Trump\u2019s handling of immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starr County voted for Trump in the 2024 election, the first time the county had favored a Republican presidential candidate in 132 years. The last time a GOP presidential contender won the county was in 1892<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants walk on the US side of the border wall in Jacumba Hot Springs, California on June 5, 2024, after crossing from Mexico. (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Starr County is heavily Latino \u2014 with Hispanics making up more than 97% of the locality. Despite media narratives<\/a> of Latinos fearing Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown, many in Starr County are embracing his heavy-handed approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having experienced many ebbs and flows of illegal migrant activity during her decades living near the southern border, Bazan said the crisis she witnessed under Biden was unequivocally the \u201cworst.\u201d The Starr County resident recounted one moment, in particular, when she was home with her daughter and they were terrified their roof would fly away because of a nearby helicopter chasing down a group of illegal migrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy daughter was like, \u2018Mom, what\u2019s happening?\u2019 And I said, \u2018I don\u2019t know,’\u201d Bazan remembered. \u201cSo she went through the back door, we didn\u2019t see [anything, but] when she opened the front door, there were a bunch of illegals running right through the sidewalk. I said, \u2018close the door and lock it.’\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Biden era, Bazan said she regularly heard gunshots throughout the day \u2014 a practice she said was a \u201csignal\u201d to migrants that they could cross into the U.S. later that night. The Texas mom added that, by the end of Biden\u2019s first term, her community was ready to vote for change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s because we\u2019re tired. We need somebody who\u2019s gonna come in, and he\u2019s gonna tell the facts the way it is and not sugar coat it,\u201d Bazan said, speaking of Trump\u2019s unorthodox approach to public communication. \u201cYou need to be told the truth the way it is \u2014 you need the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bazan, who said her family has been living in the area for seven generations, is far from the only local who feels this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI noticed [that the border crisis] has died down a lot since Trump\u2019s taken office,\u201d Amanda Garcia, a resident of San Isidro, said to the DCNF. \u201cThat border wall \u2014 that\u2019s exactly what we need.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garcia recounted numerous instances when the border crisis spilled over onto her family\u2019s property, such as when a vehicle ferrying illegal migrants plowed through her ranch\u2019s fence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m just glad that we weren\u2019t home at the time it happened,\u201d the Texas mom said, adding that her father-in-law living nearby has dealt with the same issue multiple times, costing tons of money in repairs. \u201cThey ran right through our fence, tore it all down and ran out through the net.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants are apprehended by US Border Patrol and National Guard troops in Eagle Pass, Texas, near the border with Mexico on June 30, 2022. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA \/ AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In one harrowing incident, the open-border violence nearly killed Garcia\u2019s husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While hunting on the family\u2019s property during the holidays, Garcia\u2019s husband ran into suspected cartel gangbangers engaged in a heated argument, according to her account. Upon seeing him walk by, they drew a gun at him at near point-blank range. Luckily for him, they ultimately let him go after he assured them he wasn\u2019t a threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe just put his hands up and walked off, [demonstrating that he\u2019s] not here to cause trouble,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garcia said another rampant issue was migrant mothers showing up at her doorstep pleading to use her phone, but even doing this seemingly-innocuous gesture would result in consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had so many incidents where the mothers, you know, are crying and pleading that she needs food for the baby and they want to use your phone, and once you give them the phone \u2014 forget it,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cYou do that, and you get all kinds of people calling you at all hours of the day, you know, the best thing is just to call Border Patrol, which is what we\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut there were two girls that were, I believe they were abused, and we had to call, you know, the Border Patrol on that too,\u201d she added. \u201cIt\u2019s just so many ugly scenarios that come out of the brush that people don\u2019t see.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of the chaos ultimately resulted in Starr County \u2014 consistently rated as one of the poorest counties in Texas \u2014 breaking its streak of Democrat Party dominance. The partisan swing over just a few years was incredibly pronounced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A mere 19%<\/a> of voters in the county pulled the lever for Trump in 2016, which was a fairly typical result at the time. In 2020, that number exploded to 47%<\/a>. Another four years later, Trump raked in 57% of the vote, beating then-Vice President Kamala Harris by double-digit margins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toni Trevino, chair of the Starr County Republican Party, said the border was one of several factors that finally pushed residents to spurn the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll [the Democrats] seemed to be worried about were fringe issues,\u201d Trevino said to the DCNF. \u201cPeople here are very conservative people and that message just didn\u2019t resonate with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe other thing is that they had already seen what President Trump had done before, and they liked it, so he was not an unknown entity, and they saw what Biden was doing, and they didn\u2019t want more of Biden,\u201d Trevino continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trevino\u2019s husband, Benito, pointed out that the tipping point for Starr County was local Democrats going to the polls like usual, but this time not choosing to vote for a candidate at the top of the ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTwo thousand Democrat voters did not vote for Kamala,\u201d Benito said, noting the 6,800 votes Harris received in 2024 compared to the roughly 9,100 votes Biden received in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey voted for their sheriff, but did not vote for Kamala,\u201d he explained. \u201cNot that many new people voted for Trump from 2020, but to my surprise, there were almost 2,000 people who did not vote for Kamala, but they voted in the local elections, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happened in southern Texas on Election Day 2024 was largely emblematic of what took place across the country. Latinos, a voting bloc that has historically favored the Democrat Party, swung heavily toward the GOP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump garnered a paltry 28% of the national Latino vote in the 2016 presidential election, losing the demographic to Hillary Clinton by a 38-point margin, according to<\/a> election analysts. He made modest gains with the voting bloc in 2020, winning 36% of their vote to Biden\u2019s 61%. However, by the time November 2024 arrived, the three-time election contender nearly won Latinos outright, capturing 48% of their vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president\u2019s showing with Latinos in 2024 was the best performance by a Republican presidential contestant in modern times, election results<\/a> show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s historic gains with Latinos shine as a seemingly-counterintuitive result of a GOP which was \u2014 just a few years ago, in the wake of Mitt Romney\u2019s loss \u2014 broadly encouraged<\/a> to moderate its tone on immigration enforcement in order to win a larger share of a voting bloc considered to be the future of the U.S. Trump, of course, has kept immigration enforcement as his signature issue since coming down the golden escalators at Trump Tower in the summer of 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPolling illustrates that speculation that Trump\u2019s rhetoric and positions on immigration and border enforcement would alienate the lion\u2019s share of Latino voters proved fatally wrong for Democrats,\u201d stated a January 2025 report<\/a> by the Texas Politics Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polling conducted by the University of Texas and the Texas Politics Project found that Latinos in the state were not just warm to Trump overall, but more receptive to his immigration policies. At least 43% of Latinos in Texas agreed with the idea of immediate deportation of all illegal migrants in the U.S. and as much as 49% of them said the U.S. takes in \u201ctoo many\u201d legal immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Latinos who have lived in the U.S for generations and those who arrived the legal way, many simply are not offended by his hardline position. In fact, they largely value his law-and-order approach on immigration and other issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople are supportive of what they have seen Donald Trump do so far in the country, including the border area,\u201d Trevino said of her community. \u201cAnd certainly, I mean, people here don\u2019t want drugs and all human smuggling and everything else. They don\u2019t want that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For many Latinos who lived on the front lines of the border crisis, there is little sympathy left for those openly defying the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no problem if you come into our country, but do it the legal way,\u201d Bazan said to the DCNF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd don\u2019t come in here and say you\u2019re being deported, and use your kids, you know, putting your kids out there crying and all this,\u201d Bazan continued. \u201cDon\u2019t do that. Don\u2019t use your kids because when it really comes down to it, it\u2019s your fault \u2014 you as a parent, it\u2019s all your fault.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A good write up I’m sure not being covered by the megacorp propaganda news. And to hear a hispanic American that lives on the border actually tell you about the situation in his own words, check out this Nick Johnson YouTube video queued up to the interview. https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/07\/30\/border-latinos-happy-with-donald-trump\/ By Jason Hopkins, Immigration Reporter Many Hispanic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12914,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12870\/revisions\/12914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}