Democrats can’t move forward if they stick their heads in the ground and won’t look at all possible reasons for Latino’s shift to the right. I believe one of those shifts was that the people coming through the southern border changed. I had not mentioned it as I had not come across an article suggesting that it may have been a reason for people along the border to shift so radically in favor of the person who promised to stop the “Invasion” by an illegal horde. As long as that horde was from Mexico or looked similar to the people living along the border, it did not bother them so much. But the arrival of non-Mexican-looking folks did. I had noticed that Trump was no longer saying that Mexico was sending, but rather, the Haitians were creating problems and taking resources from people already here.
Here in Harris County, I noticed that primarily black females challenged almost all white Democratic judges. I would be surprised if the judges did not see that, either. In February of this year, I wrote, “Are Black Attorneys Targeting Non-Black Judges? Did those losing judges and their friends withhold their votes for Democratic judges? I am who I am, and I know I would not have voted for the person who defeated me in a primary where I was the incumbent, but maybe some people like to turn the other cheek.
When some of the Black Attorneys are challenged for not following a new law, are they being discriminated against? If they can’t understand what is required, what qualifies them to be judges?
Up until today the Houston Chronicle had endorsed every single incumbent. Today they chose a Black lawyer over a Latina Judge that had been in that position since 2016.
Judge Maldonado is the best qualified and is Board Certified in Family Law.
As I researched the judges, I noticed that Black attorneys were targeting non-Black Judges. I had refrained from writing about what I noticed. I am sure others have seen the correlation of whom they were targeting. Source
Below is a quote from an article that states that the arrival of the Haitians tipped the scale for Latinos living along the border against illegal immigration
Until about a decade ago, the overwhelming majority of immigrants who crossed the border were from Mexico. And the majority of the Latinos living on the United States side of the border had roots in Mexico as well.
That’s changed, as have other immigration patterns at the border, and so have the attitudes of those who live here. Democratic politics have been slow to keep up — at least rhetorically — with those shifts. But Republicans have seized on them to move more voters into their camp. The state’s Republican Party no longer attempts to strike a balance on immigration. In fact, during this presidential cycle, it has gone even further by using the issue as a litmus test for whether it can turn border communities red, not just in their choices for state and federal candidates but for local ones too.
In an unprecedented effort to help the United States keep immigrants from arriving at the border, Mexico began detaining them and transporting them farther south. It also allowed the United States to turn back Mexican nationals and some Central Americans, but not other most immigrants. When word got out among would-be immigrants in South America, West Africa, China and Haiti, they began arriving in such large numbers that they overwhelmed the border, along with several of the U.S. towns and cities where they ultimately landed.
The thousands of Haitians who arrived in Del Rio three years ago shook the city because it was like nothing people there had experienced in recent history. And like Martínez, a lot of residents here have histories that go back a long way.
