A Democrat Mayor from Texas is in agreement with Trump. The agreement came in the form of a plea for the federal government to act to stop the influx of illegal immigration at the southern border.
According to The Daily Caller:
Mayor Bruno Lozano of Del Rio, Texas told Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn’s office that “we are sick and tired of the deaf ears” that accounts of the border crisis seem to fall upon, Fox News reported Tuesday.
Lozano suggested that the federal government has left border towns hanging out to dry as they try to cope with the influx of illegal immigrants who apparently cross the border, are temporarily detained and then released. He said it’s easy to ignore the situation when politicians are isolated in Washington
“They need to see firsthand what’s going on. They need to understand the frustrations that the commissioners, or that the city council, the school board, the hospital officials are managing [and] having to deal with,” Lozano said, according to Fox’s account of the meeting between the mayor and Cornyn’s staffers.
The mayor said the small towns can’t cope with large immigration problems because “it is not our purview; it is not our jurisdiction.”
“We’re frustrated. We’re extremely frustrated,” he continued. “Our priorities on the city council are our streets, are our parks, are the economy, are the drive of the community and the places of worship and the places to have leisure activities. It is not the priority to solve immigration.”
The town of Del Rio became famous when agents announced that in the month of June alone 500 immigrants have been detained near the town who were reportedly emigrating from Africa.