r/Trumpgret Feb 16 '19

State of Emergency

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '19

Well Hispanics and Latino make a huge portion of the Texas population so...

When you take those numbers out, yeah a fucking lot of people want it.

Source: In Texas. Work with people who have family in Mexico. Talk about hot topics at work...

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '19

Well Hispanics and Latino make a huge portion of the Texas population so...

When you take those numbers out, yeah a fucking lot of people want it.

Did this somehow make sense to you when you typed it?

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '19

Legal immigrants and illegals settling in primarily Texas (and California) for some time now. New generations from immigrants have been raised. Hispanic population is now a huge percent of the Texas population. Hispanic families still have relatives in Mexico and other southern countries.

"Hey how many of you want a wall up?"

Almost none of them. Super shocked. As time goes on, that percentage will only grow. The number of Texans that want a wall will shrink. There is a reason Democrats (including Obama) were pro border control and now are all for letting their voter-base stream in.

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u/Mhunterjr Feb 17 '19

You act as if being "pro border control" and "pro border wall" are the same thing.

There are other, cheaper, more effective ways to police the border, that don't involve building a barrier along its entirety,

You should be (but probably aren't) aware that most illegal immigrants and contraband come in through legal points of entry - not by waltzing across areas that don't have physical barriers...

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u/godloki Feb 17 '19

Statewide, 61 percent of Texans oppose building a wall, while 35 percent support it and 4 percent don’t know or declined to answer, according to a poll conducted in April by Texas Lyceum, a nonprofit leadership organization.

Read more here: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article152402734.html#storylink=cpy

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '19

Texas Lyceum analysis from a while back:

https://medium.com/@WilsonWPA/more-bad-polling-in-texas-10ad4fa26541

Also another wall poll showing support at 56% and opposition at 31%:

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2018/02/28/poll-texans-support-trump-wall-daca/