Texas voters say inflation, border amongst high issues: 'We by no means had these points' with Trump – Fox Information

EL PASO, Texas – Inflation and border safety are entrance and heart for a lot of voters Fox Information spoke with in El Paso forward of November’s midterm elections.

“Inflation, economics,” Jason mentioned. “I need to be sure that I can afford to dwell.”

Tony mentioned he was paying less than $2 per gallon for gasoline through the Trump administration, and now he is paying upwards of $4 per gallon.

“With Trump within the White Home, we by no means had these points,” Chrystal mentioned of inflation and border safety, her two largest priorities.

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Aaron needs to see business-minded candidates who can assist the economic system and probably encourage the Federal Reserve to decrease rates of interest.

“I do know proper now every little thing is actually unstable and inflation is actually excessive and we do not know when it should go down,” he mentioned. “So I’d simply need to be sure that they’ve a very good plan of reducing making it so much simpler to dwell in America.”

Misty, who was visiting El Paso from New Mexico, said women’s rights had been her high voting precedence.

“I am a mom and I’ve daughters, and with that, Roe v. Wade being overturned, I fear about what the long run appears to be like like for them,” she mentioned.

Ame Matoi needs to vote for a candidate who “actually taxes the wealthy, however in the identical manner nonetheless cares concerning the folks.”

Matoi additionally values the Second Amendment, however wish to see some reforms.

“I wish to vote for a Democrat to repair the gun challenge, however I do not need the weapons taken away,” Matoi mentioned. “I wish to see that the assault rifle age … can be 21.”

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Border safety and immigration additionally ranked excessive for a number of voters Fox Information spoke with.

“Our border shouldn’t be safe,” Chrystal mentioned. “I’m a Latina and I consider that individuals ought to come right here with their papers. However what we have now occurring is completely not okay.”

Chrystal characterised the Biden administration’s present coverage as “an open invitation” to folks all over the world.

“So why would not they arrive?” she mentioned. “However the issue is, we do not know who’s coming by way of. All of the fentanyl that is hitting the US is killing everyone.”

Tony mentioned the federal government must know who it lets “into its home.”

“Similar to you would not let anybody simply stroll into your own home with out you asking who they’re, the place they arrive from, what their intentions are, it is the identical idea,” he mentioned. “I really feel unhealthy for these immigrants as a result of it is like they’re utilizing them to attempt to press a political agenda.”

However Arturo, who works in downtown El Paso and has seen the results of the city’s migrant crisis firsthand, mentioned he thinks open borders are “not likely a risk.”

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“Individuals ought to really feel the correct to come back right here and to really feel protected, to have the ability to progress their life and escape no matter they’re making an attempt to flee,” Arturo mentioned. “I need to see some extra assist for that, like for them, as a substitute of simply jam-packing them into some sort of facility or one thing.”

Jason mentioned he is anxious about strains on social companies because of the surge in illegal immigration. 

“I would favor that individuals come over legally,” he mentioned. “I’ve plenty of neighbors within the El Paso space that came to visit legally, they usually’re not massive followers of unlawful immigration.”

Michel, visiting from Ohio, mentioned border safety does not have an effect on him instantly, however he does not like seeing “the medication, the trafficking and the folks which might be dying” crossing the border.

“When Trump was in workplace, each time there was an incident in a river or any person died, it made it entrance web page information,” he mentioned. “Now it is occurring, persons are dying by the scores, they do not appear to care.”

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He mentioned the administration ought to “put a wall up [and] stick with it.”

Because the midterms method, Tony mentioned he is disturbed by how polarized the nation has turn out to be and hopes folks will deal with one another with compassion.

“I hate this tradition of the division that the media simply retains like hammering,” he mentioned. “I am Latino. I am conservative. There’s folks which might be a distinct coloration, and even when we do not have the identical concepts, they’re nonetheless human beings.”