b'wages while displacing native-born American workers and legal immigrants, and histo carry out as much of the border crackdown that he has promisedall in the face campaign tour featured grieving mothers and fathers whose children were killed byof a newly-elected Democratic majority in the House of Representatives that ran, illegal immigrants. While Mexicans were Trumps original target, Central Americansin large part, specifically against Trumps animus toward illegal Latin immigrants.were lumped-in, as their numbers began to explode this past spring and as imagesIt is undeniable, especially from our perspective here in the Coastal Bend of of the caravan through Mexico made it to social and news media. As the 2020 elec- Texas, that criminal elements reside within the population of unauthorized im-tion season ramps up, Trump has used executive orders, administrative policies ofmigrants, most of whom are pleasant, hardworking people who cause no trouble. the Homeland Security Department, and reallocation of Defense Department fundsThe aforementioned Mexican drug cartels work hand-in-hand with gangs operat-TheCoastalBend.com THE COASTAL BEND MAGAZINEFall 2019 29'