On the US border in Texas, Trump deportation drive galvanises midterm vote

Rio Grande Valley, Texas – Leaning over plates of tamales, pan dulce, and sugar skulls, community organisers and local residents in the border city of Brownsville remembered the dead.This year’s Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, vigil honoured victims of state violence, including those killed in immigration enforcement and detention. Just days before the US midterm election on November 3, the event reverberated in a region long subject to Washington, DC’s shifting political winds.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Who is leading the US midterm polls as Trump and Harris campaign?list 2 of 3Pentagon says Iran war has cost US taxpayers $47bn: What that meanslist 3 of 3What does bourbon have to do with the US midterms?end of list“The atmosphere here in the Rio Grande Valley when it comes to ICE detentions and the ICE raids, there’s just the overall feeling amongst folks that there’s no real due process to this,” said Mark Anthony Vasquez, a 52-year-old community organiser.“What is it that we can do to move together and build together to try to make it past this, and make that change that we seek?”Down the block, at a bookstore panel on border and immigration policy, 24...