Will soon resemble Schindler’s List.
“Uncharted territory”: Trump’s anti-immigration plans could take center stage in Texas
About 11% of immigrants in the United States, 5 million, live in Texas. The state is home to an estimated 1.6 million undocumented persons — the second-most in the country after California. It is also led by Republican elected officials who are politically in lock-step with Trump.
When Trump left office in 2021, Gov. Greg Abbott surged resources to the state’s 1,254-mile border with Mexico through a border security mission, Operation Lone Star, that has so far cost $11 billion in state money. It includes the deployment of thousands of Department of Public Safety troopers and Texas National Guard troops to patrol the border. He started building a state-funded border wall after Biden ended Trump’s wall project. He sent busloads of newly-arrived migrants from border towns to northern cities led by Democrats.
Those state police and Texas soldiers could help Trump achieve his marquee campaign promise of launching mass deportations, according to immigration lawyers.
“We are in uncharted territory,” said Cesar Espinosa, the executive director of FIEL, an organization that offers education, social and legal services to immigrant families in the Houston region — home to about half a million people who are living in the country illegally.
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Immigrant labor accounts for 40% or so of our construction industry, heavily involved in agriculture, healthcare, and food processing. Yeee haw!
Now add to that the 200,000 plus federal employees in Texas plus the VA Hospitals. Not to mention there are 5 military installations with federal employees and contractors in the San Antonio area.
We are well and truly screwed. Ask me why my house is going up for sale in the new year. 👍
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