Hispanic voters helped bring Trump to power - in Texas, the tide may be turning

Texas accounted for roughly one-third of all ICE arrests nationwide in July 2026 - a larger share than any other state - according to government figures obtained by the Deportation Data Project."They said we're gonna seek out, capture, detain and deport the worst of the worst," Snipes said in his sermon. "Well, we're here on the border and the cartel is the worst-of-the-worst. So we thought, well, that's a good thing."But it turned out, you can hear almost every day, some poor guy going to work and they stop him and detain him and start a big fight."After the service, two members of the congregation stopped to chat. "We're educators, and we have a lot of students that are having to go back because their parents are getting deported," one said."The cruelty that we're seeing - I think that's turning the tide, at least I hope so," their friend added.Turning the tide politically is what Democrats are hoping they can do in Texas in the midterm elections on 3 November. But that will not be easy.This stretch of the Rio Grande was once one of the busiest crossing points on the US-Mexico border. Under former President Joe Biden, hundreds of thousands of migrants came through here, with more...