South Texas: The New Hot Spot For Illegal Crossing

NPR ^ | January 19, 2014 | Ted Robbins

[Drew68]

But Romney won in Texas by 16 points in 2012. That’s equivalent to Obama’s margin in Illinois.

Yes, but demographics are not in our favor. Not even in Texas. I figure the 2016 GOP candidate will win by 4-8 points. By 2020, Texas will be a battleground state.

[nascarnation]

You may well be right.
I’ve been told by certain FReepers that abortion is killing potential Dem voters faster than immigration is producing new ones.
I totally disagree with this, because my calculations show the ratio is >2:1 in favor of more Dem voters.

[Ditter]

The Mexicans who swim the river and walk through the brush are peons, they can't fix anything. The ones up the ladder from them are the ones who should be fixing it but they are too corrupt.

Everyone down there has their hand out.

[Drew68]

I’ve been told by certain FReepers that abortion is killing potential Dem voters faster than immigration is producing new ones. I totally disagree with this...

As you should. This is silly.

This premise relies on the flawed belief that liberals always produce liberal children, conservatives always produce conservative children, and only Democrat-voters have abortions. None of which is true.

[jmacusa]

They can't fix anything? Hogwash. They end up working for building contractors framing houses, doing plumbing, electrical work, etc. Heck we were a nation of farmers, blacksmiths, mule drivers and shop owners who took on the preeminent world power of the late eighteenth century and created a nation. Mexicans don't give a damn about their country or each other. It's a crime-ridden, violent and racist class-ridden kleptocrisy where everybody steals whatever isn't nailed down and blames The United States. I'm sick and G-damned tired of my wife and I busting our butts for what little we have only to have to be paying the freight for a bunch of asocial parasites who produce no wealth, render no useful service and who degrade and destroy everything they come in contact with. This has been going on for almost forty years. How much longer can we put up with before America becomes the crap hole these people ran away from?

[Ditter]

That is NOT what I am saying!

In their own country, they can’t fix anything. they are too low on the ladder to have the power to fix anything, so they leave. The system needs fixing in Mexico starting at the top.

[Theodore R.]

Many of the older voters backing nominal Republican candidates in TX will be dead by 2022, and there are no conservatives to replace them. TX has a lot of hibernating socialists waiting to arise to victory.

[Theodore R.]

You may not like social parisites, but the American people seem themselves as “compassionate” and want to “help” parasites.

[Lizavetta]

Maybe if Mexicans would put just half the energy into fixing their country that they do into destroying ours

Really?

Our country is circling the drain and what are WE doing? What CAN we do? The Odumbos own the military, the Treasury and the media.

What are the poor Mexicans supposed to do against the drug lords who run their country?

[jmacusa]

Please, you’re bordering on the bigotry of low expectation. Things never get fixed anywhere form the top down but from the bottom up.

[jmacusa]

Circling the drain? Britain is circling the drain, so is France. We’re in some dire straights I’ll agree but we’re not dead yet. Obama is out of office in two years. And Obozo does not ‘’own’’ the military. And the media? He sure as hell doesn’t own Free republic. “Poor Mexicans’’ my ass. They sure can come up with anywhere from 14 to 25k to get here. ‘’What are they supposed to do’’? C’mon FRiend, that’s the bigotry of low expectation and you don’t strike me as a bigot.

[jmacusa]

Not this American brother, not me!

[SwinneySwitch]

“I don’t feel safe anymore out here,” Vickers says. “I carry a pistol with me and cell phone when I go outside. It just shouldn’t be like that.”

[UCANSEE2]

The system needs fixing in Mexico starting at the top.

The problem is that the system in Mexico is fixed starting at the top. In that respect, the USA is becoming Mexico.