Senator Ruben Gallego

In their mind, like what they're talking about is those people that are coming across the border right now in these massive waves claiming asylum.

They weren't thinking that, oh, you're going to go after the person in my neighborhood that's been here for 20 years.

That's a good person that works.

And so they rationalized it that that's not going to happen.

And then to add the fact that they were racially profiling U.S.

citizens has made them turn and turn very, very fast.

Because I think they didn't want to see it coming.

They viewed the asylum seeker crossing the border in those waves as not being part of their community, right?

And I think people kind of forget that, you know, especially Latino communities, long-term Latino communities, did not see the waves of people coming in as being part of their culture, Latino culture.

Exactly, exactly.

Yeah, and a lot of us knew this and we were trying to tell people this because there was, you know, just to be clear, there was fear from, you know, Democratic consultants and people around the president that if you do that, you're going to, quote, lose the Latino vote.

When we knew, many of us that are very well connected to the Latino community, not just like Latino politicians, that Latinos did not see or identify with that mass migration as being part of their collective idea of who they are.

Number one, we want border enforcement.

And when I ran for office, I led, one of the first commercials I had was in Spanish about border enforcement.

A lot of people understand that some people have come to this country illegally.

And I think the majority of Americans will prefer

the super majority would prefer that you come here legally.

But for some reason, you overstayed your visa, you crossed because you had family, whatever it is, right?

Get yourself right with the government, get a background check, pay a fine, get in the back of the line, in case there's people that have been doing this right first, and then go from there.

Number two, we want you to go after bad people.