You’re in a Border Patrol boat armed with machine guns.
The only threat you face is unarmed children and families who are seeking asylum (as well as the occasional heckler).
If you’re looking for a crisis to cosplay Senator for, I’m happy to point you in the right direction.
The state you “represent” in the Senate is the least insured in the nation.
That means your constituents are dying of diabetes, curable cancers and the flu (as well as 50,000 from Covid in the last year alone) because they can’t afford a doctor or medicine.
110 Texans died in mass shootings in the last 2 years because you’re more concerned about taking care of the NRA than in taking care of the people you are supposed to serve.
Families from El Paso, Sutherland Springs, Santa Fe High, Midland/Odessa know what a real crisis is.
Hundreds of thousands of working Texans make a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, which means they need to 2 or even 3 jobs just to pay the rent and put food on the table.
And your hometown of Houston leads the nation in evictions of these minimum wage workers during the pandemic.
The truth is, the number of individual asylum seekers and immigrants seeking to come to this country is the SAME or LOWER than it was in 2019 when Trump was President (and you were, apparently, Senator).
This isn’t any more of a crisis today than it was then.
If you’re ever interested in actually working on solutions to what we’re seeing at our border (instead of trafficking in seditious lies, fleeing Texas during a storm that killed more than 100, etc.), here are some ideas:
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