I saw pictures today of ICE trucks rolling through Albuquerque

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5. A possible flickering light of hope

This may be a will o’ the wisp, but an ICE campaign of terror in New Mexico might finally wake up the politically apathetic Latino voters of Texas. Latinos tend to have large families, New Mexico is not known for its booming job market, and when it’s time to set up on their own, New Mexicans tend to pack up and move to other states. A lot of New Mexicans have family in Texas, and seeing their aunts and uncles, cousins, and other relatives brutalized by ICE might finally spoil the courtship that parts of the Texas Republican Party has been running off and on since Buckaroo Bush was in the White House.

Texas has remained a red citadel largely because of the strength of the Republican Party among Anglo voters and because Texas Latinos assumed that the Texas GOP would leave them alone.

Brutal ICE raids in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and other NM cities and towns might well arouse a complacent part of the electorate that assumed that the Republican Party wouldn’t mess with them.