It only took eight years for Lina Hidalgo to become a politician.

While I am not in favor of illegal immigration and have stated that most of a long life, that does not mean that maybe a majority of Latino voters don’t think it matters, especially now as the media is showing how people who look like me and other Latinos are being treated; now that citizens are detained for hours for having been in the same place as maybe some people here illegally were. Now that we have to see how those blue eyes are given a pass, but our families are being pulled over for failing to use their turn signal to change lanes.

Latino elected officials Houston/Harris County – Adrian Garcia, Leslie Briones, Sylvia Garcia, Carol Alvarado, Mary Ann Perez, Armando Walle, Ana Hernandez, Cristina Morales, Mario Castillo. Joaquin Martinez:

When Lina Hidalgo first ran for Harris County judge in 2018, she said she was disappointed with the county’s tepid response to President Donald Trump’s leadership, including his stringent immigration policies. Her eventual victory made the 27-year-old rookie a rising star in the Democratic Party and a beacon of hope to anxious liberals during Trump’s first term.

“I saw local government of such a powerful county, of such a powerful state, failing to stand up to policies I knew were dangerous,” Hidalgo told the Houston Chronicle in 2018. “So, I decided this is what I needed to do.”

Last Monday, on the first day of Trump’s second term, the president passed a series of executive orders taking his crusade against immigrants even further, attempting to ban birthright citizenship, vowing to send troops to the southern border and shutting down refugee and asylum programs.

But this time around, Hidalgo, a Colombian immigrant herself, has not publicly addressed Trump’s immigration crackdown since he retook office — and she’s not the only one. 

The Houston area’s top Democratic lawmakers have been largely silent on immigration since Trump has begun to put his plans into action, despite denouncing his positions on the issue throughout the campaign season. Mayor John Whitmire, who offered words in support of immigrants in the days leading up to Trump’s inauguration, has not publicly addressed Trump’s immigration initiatives since he retook office last week either. 

“In a city like Houston, we would like to see leadership take a strong stand and defy working with an unjust system that Trump is proposing,” said Cesar Espinosa, executive director of immigrant rights group FIEL Houston. “Unfortunately, we are still very incredulous whether that’s going to happen or not.”

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