Americans in border county call on Trump to address immigration and finish the border wall

Immigration has been a fixture of President Trump's docket since helium got into authorities and Latin Americans successful 1 Texas borderline region told Fox News Digital that they afloat backmost his efforts. 

Starr County, Texas, which sits connected the borderline of Mexico and the United States, is astir 100 percent Latino, and the region flipped to the Republican Party for the first clip successful implicit 130 years aft Trump won it successful the 2024 election.

Now, Starr County residents spot the border, migration and the system arsenic the apical issues going into the president's 2nd administration.

"The main things of borderline extortion and cleaning up the economy, bringing backmost down these horrific prices that are done the roof," Marcus Canales, precinct president of the Starr County GOP, said. 

David Porras, a erstwhile husbandman who switched from the Democratic Party to the GOP successful 2024, said helium wants to spot Trump travel done connected his committedness to code inflation, migration and the economy. 

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"I myself sold immoderate spot to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers," helium said successful notation to the operation of the borderline wall. "So we went on with it. Trump believes successful gathering the wall."

His comments are successful enactment with Fox News polling, which recovered that a 4th of voters accidental Trump’s apical absorption should beryllium connected the economy/jobs, ostentation and precocious prices, portion different 13 percent said migration and deportation should beryllium his No. 1 priority. 

Other residents besides told Fox News Digital that they enactment Trump's efforts to decorativeness the borderline partition during this 2nd word successful office.  

Amanda Garcia, the vice president of the Republican Women of Starr County, said the borderline partition should beryllium the archetypal happening Trump should absorption connected aft being sworn in. 

"We request to look into finishing that due to the fact that surviving close here, we unrecorded successful a borderline city," she said. "It's important to marque definite that we get the families taken attraction of and bash the full migration process the close way."

Ross, a subordinate of the Starr County GOP, agreed, stating that borderline information is 1 of the archetypal things helium would similar to spot Trump code erstwhile helium takes office.

Alberto Olivares, who antecedently ran for Sheriff of County TX and served arsenic an cause for the Customs and Border Patrol for 26 years, echoed a akin sentiment. He said the borderline and the system are "the 2 astir important priorities for our country" and "the things that I perceive radical down present complaining astir the most."

Jay Pena, an lawyer Rio Grande City successful Starr County, said the borderline is "an disfigured and crude but indispensable solution." 

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"I deliberation it's hard to unfastened the doorway to different ideas that mightiness enactment successful the agelong word and, for that reason, the borderline partition truly is the lone indispensable solution," helium added. 

When asked what she would similar to spot from the Trump administration, Oneida, a subordinate of the Republican Women of Starr County, said she would similar to spot the partition finished. 

Amanda said that being truthful adjacent to the borderline makes migration idiosyncratic for her and her neighbors successful Starr County. 

U.S. President Donald Trump takes portion successful a signing ceremonial aft his inauguration connected January 20, 2025, successful the President's Room astatine the U.S. Capitol successful Washington, D.C. (Melina Mara-Pool/Getty Images)

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"We spot a batch going on, and it's not astir racism oregon what we want… arsenic acold arsenic what's amended for us," she said. "But it's for the families, the children coming implicit and it each comes backmost to the children. I deliberation there's a batch of abuse, a batch of things that aren't being talked astir that request to beryllium addressed."

Olivares predicted Trump volition support his committedness and decorativeness the borderline wall. 

"Those are the policies that helium instituted successful his archetypal term," helium said. "They're successful. People liked them. We saw a batch of occurrence successful the Border Patrol nether those past 2 years successful his archetypal word and I expect that to continue."

"He promised, I judge successful him, and I judge helium volition decorativeness it," Marissa, a Starr County resident, said. 

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