Does 2004 show that Dem panicking over the Rio Grande Valley is overblown?

[NOVA Green]

Much of this might depend upon the cutting back of a whole new "Army" of Border Patrol agents, many of whom are either Latino or Bilingual that now have good paying jobs to "police" the Central Americans from places such as Honduras and Guatemala coming over the border, fleeing a mixture of Climate Crisis induced crop failure in the Native Highlands, as well as a growth of Criminal Gang violence which has exploded in both counties in recent years as the Drug Cartels have shifted their routes.

Regardless, was shocked at the amount of Mexican-American racism and stereotypes of Central-Americans when I was working at the factories in Houston.

Sure as hell wasn't like that in the 1980s and early '90s when Central Americans were relatively warmly welcomed in both Mexico and US fleeing the aftermath of Reagan's Wars and everybody understood that the El Norte was the only ticket out....