ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY

Analysis: The Texas-Mexico frontier still tops the news — and state politics

For Texas voters, fear of an insecure border consistently overshadows other issues — electric grid failures, handgun regulation, abortion access — even when those things top the news.

By Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune
Posted 12/6/21

Undocumented immigrants haven’t killed 72,808 Texans during the last two years, like COVID-19 did through Dec. 2. Immigrants haven’t brought that kind of danger to the state in …

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