Immigration is not part of Joe Frank Martinez’s job. But in Del Rio, Texas, like in other majority Latino communities across the country, the issue is high on voters’ minds and is disrupting long-standing political allegiances.
  • Pete HahnloserM
    2•1 day ago

    I’m locking this because it went off the rails. Y’all want to talk politics, we have a community for that.

    • @SinAdjetivos@beehaw.org
      9•2 days ago

      deal with illegals

      You mean be the one putting them in cages? Running the concentration camps immigrant detention centers? Using their legal status as leverage for the modern equivalent of indentured servitude?

      It turns out people aren’t very nice when they’re being abused.

      champagne communists

      So let’s stop speaking in euphemisms. When you say “illegals” that is explicitly genocidal language, little different than the usual ‘insects’, ‘vermin’, etc.

      So why don’t we just kill them all? Just set up a militarized zone on the border and shoot anything that moves?

    • Che Banana
      13•2 days ago

      By ‘dealing with’ you mean play on the golf courses they maintain, eat at the restaurant is they cook at, enjoy the landscaping they maintain around your house (that they built), spend nights in hotels they cook, clean and maintain, drive on roads they built and reap the benefits of the taxes they pay without any returns?

      Is that what you mean? sips champagne

      • @Kaboom@reddthat.com
        0•2 days ago

        So what you want is a second class of citizens, a lower class that serve you, the upper class? That you can underpay and abuse? Is that really the way you want to go?

        • @dontgooglefinderscult
          6•2 days ago

          I suggest you reread that statement and try against, lest you prove the illiteracy of neoliberals.

            • Scary le Poo
              3•2 days ago

              Perhaps you should read again. Clearly reading comprehension is not your strong point.

              • @Kaboom@reddthat.com
                0•2 days ago

                So tell me, why not at places maintained and run by people who are born here or immigrated legally? Why are you so insistent on illegal immigrants?

                • Che Banana
                  2•2 days ago

                  You obviously live in a bubble so responding with “those places don’t exist.” Is only for those who can follow, you can go back to licking your lead lollypop.

        • @sunbather@beehaw.org
          15•2 days ago

          not sure if youve commented on the right post cuz your interpretation seemingly makes no sense. the article is not about hating immigrants, its about how absolutely dysfunctional and self-contradicting american policies are and how that affects americans as well as people trying to enter america.

          in fact, the article makes it quite clear with

          Conservative assertions about the issue, particularly those that painted immigration as an “invasion,” had failed to resonate with people on the border precisely because they knew better from living there.

          that its people who dont deal with immigrants who seem to hate them the most (when it comes to republicans anyways). wonder if theres a word for that.

          the article mentions multiple times that dealing with immigrants is not explicitly part of martinez’s job, but due to the nature of his position, both in terms of work and in terms of geography, its something that he has become accustomed to doing anyways and because of this he has a lot of first hand experience interacting with them and the point of the article is that immigrants deserve compassion and that the system is hell bent on denying them that, ultimately only causing problems for the american side of the border too, whether intentionally;

          Later, the border became ground zero for Trump’s anti-immigration efforts, which involved separating children from their parents and forcing Central American asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico until they were given a date to appear in U.S. immigration court. Neither of those efforts had a lasting impact on the number of people arriving at the border, but they forced more immigrants to be stuck on the Mexican side for longer periods of time — and disruptions on the Mexican side of the border almost always ripple into the U.S. side.

          or not;

          The Trump administration tore down some of them to build sections twice as high of the “big, beautiful wall” he promised voters. But Trump left office before completing the project. Biden then came in and immediately paused construction, pledging to not build “another foot” of wall. In Del Rio, that meant that workers left stacks of construction materials behind and gaps between the panels of fencing wide enough for tractor-trailers to drive through them.

          something something the road to hell is paved with good intentions

          looking at your comment history its tempting to think youre trolling seeing as how you think the IDF displacing hundreds of thousands of palestinians, killing thousands of children and hundreds of volunteers is palestine “playing the victim”, but i digress