When you can’t find a job. When you can’t feed your family like you used to. Then one will quickly fall out of love with the clown who spun them a story of making America great again. They are not so stupid that they will allow it to continue at their expense.
This is just the beginning if we are going into a recession and jobs plus inflation hit America the way many economists, including this self-proclaimed Chicano expert, predict. The following is likely to occur;
Americans will need jobs, so the best way to free up some jobs is to remove all those brown skinned people here who have jobs, either because of TPO, DACA, or H-Visas. There will be other nationalities, Indians, for instance, but they are just as brown skinned as the Mexicans and other Americans south of the border. That is what happened in the 50s and 30s during those send the Mexicans back eras.
Texas accounted for $540 billion of the nearly $900 billion in U.S.-Mexico trade clocked last year, according to U.S. trade figures.
Rice University political scientist Mark Jones said strong support related to security persists for Trump across Texas and the borderland. Yet Jones notes signs of “erosion of support over more draconian efforts like the deportation of children, U.S. citizens,” and deepening worries about Trump’s trade policies.
…Separately, a poll by the Pew Research Center shows Trump has a 27% approval rating among Hispanics, a “complete collapse among the fastest growing group of GOP supporters,” wrote GOP political consultant Mike Madrid on the social media platform Bluesky.
Cracks run from Brownsville to El Paso – communities where the federal government plays an outsized role, employing thousands in key jobs, including the U.S. Border Patrol.
…In March, as dust storms howled across the desert, he and colleagues worried as Trump declared a 25% tariff on imports from Mexico and then rescinded it. The tariff on Mexican goods disrupted operations, leading to a steep decline in imports. Barrio, who helps move cattle between the U.S. and Mexico, said he lost more than $70,000.
A large Trump flag that Barrio displayed inside his office didn’t sit well with money-losing clients, one of whom lost $100,000 in just those three days, representing all of his 2024 profits. Barrio said he quietly rolled up the MAGA flag and put it out of sight. “I need to give him (Trump) some time, and 100 days is not enough,” he said. “If by the end of the year things don’t look better, I’ll consider my alternatives.”
