Jeff Tiedrich rant: what kind of fucked-up monster puts razor-wire booby traps in a river

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38. Sometimes local citizens are overwhelmed.

Many communities along the border have ties with Mexico, not with those from Central American countries, and they worry that their communities are being overrun. Many of these communities are also relatively poor, so being asked to care for hundreds or even thousands of migrants is an enormous burden. The state government makes it worse because they could help the federal government disperse those granted asylum to other parts of Texas and allow them to work, but Abbot is more interested in making political points with his anti-immigrant backers—the very ones who knowingly hire migrants and undocumented workers. In reality, the Texas economy depends on migrant labor, but despicable Abbott will never admit that.