Poll after poll shows Texas voters rank immigration and the border as the most pressing issues.
U.S. Rep. Colin Allred , D-Dallas, speaks to supporters during a stop for his U.S. Senate campaign in McAllen on Feb. 17, 2024.to receive twice-monthly updates on our year-long initiative dedicated to boosting civic engagement and chronicling how democracy is experienced in Texas.Unlike many Texas Democrats before him, U.S. Rep. Colin Allred wants to talk about the border.
With three and half months left until Election Day, both candidates are campaigning on border and immigration issues: Allred is running campaign ads that tout headlines about him breaking with his party to condemn Biden, while Cruz laced into the president’s policies in a lively speech at the Republican National Convention Tuesday, blaming Biden for several recent high-profile murders allegedly committed by immigrants who entered the country illegally.
“One of my biggest frustrations with Sen. Cruz is that he's had 12 years to try and enact any kind of reform — whether it's comprehensive or even just targeted — to try and help us do something about what's been happening at the border. And he has, every single time, refused,” Allred said in an interview.
Cruz said if Allred really felt that way, he should have gotten behind House Republicans’ wide-ranging border crackdown last year.“the most comprehensive border security legislation in decades” and introduced a version in the Senate, though Democrats in the upper chamber had already made clear it was dead on arrival.
Instead, Allred supports a bill penned by U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, and Florida Republican Rep. Maria Salazar that includes a mix of security-minded features and policies addressing legal immigration and the status of undocumented people in the U.S. “It's a sound political strategy, but it's very difficult, because right now all voters want to hear is, can we stop the border? Can you stop the flow of immigrants?” Navarro said. “And so, short of that, I don't think they're convinced or want to hear the details.”in his first year in Congress. But he also previously called former President Donald Trump’s wall proposal “racist” and “ineffective,” comments that have drawn flak from Cruz.
In his emailed response, Cruz pointed to Nungaray’s death as an example of how border policies favored by Allred “allow monsters into our country who have assaulted and murdered Americans.
At the time, Cruz panned Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell for initially signaling support for the bill. He told Fox News that McConnell had ensured “every single Democrat running for office” would say “gosh, I wanted to secure the border, but the mean old Republicans wouldn’t let us.” He also predicted, though, that voters “will not be fooled” by the attempt to provide “political cover” for Democrats.
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