States vs. Feds – who controls the border?

if you did, did you notice big differences on either side of the border?

Yes.

Uh, growing up, we would go to Mexico almost every weekend, um, to visit my grandmother and some other cousins that I had, um, over there.

There was always a big difference, um, a really big income gap.

Um, but as the years went by, it became a lot more dangerous, and so we stopped going as frequent, frequently, and visits that used to happen every weekend became more spread out.

It would be a once a month and then, um, once a year as I got into my teenage years.

Um, it was especially bad during COVID as well, and it's progressively, uh, gotten better, but for a while there, it was very dangerous.

So as someone who grew up along the border, you, you saw how it changed.

You described that.

When you're looking at the current state of the US-Mexico border, what do you think people are getting most wrong about it right now?

One thing that a lot of people are getting wrong is it, it's not this, um, broad, abstract conversation on, uh, social ideals and, and virtue signaling.

It's a, a real issue that impacts a lot of people.

And for example, in Texas border counties, the average, uh, median salary was about 50, 40 to $50,000.

But you hear the conversations about this, especially in Congress, and the people that are staunchly opposed to, to having a secure border are Democrats from affluent, uh, neighborhoods in parts of the country that are nowhere near the border.

So it w- really feels like, um, they're not listening to the people of the community who are actually impacted by these issues, but at the same time, they take measures to protect themselves.

So it, it sounds like individuals who have a lot to say about what is going on at the border, about border policy, especially individuals who do not live anywhere near it or are impacted by it, they have a lot to say in terms of saying that we're being too aggressive.

For them, it's kind of this virtue signaling idea.

There's this conversation about the morality of borders and whether or not we should have them, but what they're failing to understand is that along the border itself, the communities that are there, they are the ones who are becoming the most impacted by having these open borders.

Yes, that's true, and, and you see this especially in the last election.