James Barragan, Author at Flux https://flux.community/creator/james-barragan/ A platform for change Fri, 23 Sep 2022 04:37:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Migrants, long the focus of political rhetoric, have now become props on planes and buses https://flux.community/james-barragan/2022/09/migrants-long-the-focus-of-political-rhetoric-have-now-become-props-on-planes-and-buses/ Fri, 23 Sep 2022 13:00:49 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12393 For five months, Gov. Greg Abbott bused migrants to Democrat-led cities to draw attention to the number of people arriving at the Texas border. He began with Washington, D.C., then expanded the busing to New York and Chicago. At least 11,000 migrants have been removed from the state, by all accounts voluntarily. But an attempt by Florida Gov. […]

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]]> Along the Texas-Mexico border, GOP enthusiasm mounts as Democrats defect over immigration concerns https://flux.community/james-barragan/2022/09/along-the-texas-mexico-border-gop-enthusiasm-mounts-as-democrats-defect-over-immigration-concerns/ Tue, 13 Sep 2022 16:00:59 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12286 Dale Lynn Carruthers had always been a Democrat. Growing up in the small, predominantly Hispanic city of Sanderson near the border in West Texas, everyone she knew belonged to the party, which had long been dominant in the region. So when she ran for a seat on the Terrell County Commissioners Court for the first […]

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